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A promotional image of The Doors live album "Unbound and Dangerous," showing the square CD case with a vibrant stage photograph, the accompanying black disc with gold lettering, and an open booklet displaying photos and text.

The Doors: Unbound and Dangerous

A lifelong Doors fan revisits Unbound and Dangerous and explores seven standout concert albums, explaining why the band's music keeps revealing something new.
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What the duck?!

A comic book cover variant from All-New Captain America #6, 2015. Declan Shalvey pays homage to Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell’s soup can lithograph.

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Photopea: Free Online Photo Editor

Ever wanted a free Photoshop clone without downloading any new software? Well, Photopea is your answer, the graphic editor is web-based and very easy to use. You will right at home if you are a Photoshop user.

Photopea is a web-based raster graphics editor used for image editing, making illustrations, web design or converting between different image formats. Photopea is advertising-supported software.

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Ditko Shrugged: The Uncompromising Life of the Artist Behind Spider-Man

Steve Ditko emulated his creations, he was a man of mystery and that suited him fine. He co-created both Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with Stan Lee. He had a beef with Stan Lee, he always believed he was also the originator of the famous Marvel Method way of storytelling. Stan Lee always said that he was the sole creator of the method.

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Exploring Gotham City

Gotham unlike Metropolis and other superhero cities has a character of its own. It is not a mere backdrop but an essential component of each character in the Batman universe. Gotham is tied to the origin of each character, it is a raison d’etre for all the characters. Heroes are born to protect Gotham and villains born to extract the riches from Gotham.

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#feedimagination by Goldfish

The folks at Goldfish (Campbell Canada) invited parents across Canada to submit their kids’ artwork and stories so that they would have an opportunity to show their work on a larger stage than their refrigerators.

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Austin Kleon encouraged me to steal and I am better for it

Austin Kleon might be the only person a mother would like that would encourage you to steal. He has made a career of being that little devil on your left shoulder egging you to steal like an artist. Nothing wrong with stealing like an artist, all of us do it each day. The trick is not to make it too obvious.

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ZZ Top’s First Album: 50 years later

Fifty years ago, a lonely little band tumbled out of Houston, Texas. They released their first album called, ZZ Top’s First Album. They are the only rock and roll band to still be together after fifty years with all the original members. Billy Gibbons was designated as “one of the best young guitarists in the U.S.” by Jimi Hendrix during his stint in the Tonight Show in 1969.

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Rust in Peace: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece

When it comes to consuming literature, I tend to go either e-book or paper. This time I went the audiobook route for Rust in Peace: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece. Why? Because the story unfolds by the people involved in the story of Megadeth’s mega album, Rust in Peace.

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Lewis Trondheim’s The Fly

You don’t have to be a fly on the wall to get the latest of Lewis Trondheim’s The Fly. Rejoice, his comic strip, The Fly is coming to the US as collected by Papercutz. The series did enjoy an animated adaption called Fly Tales in 1999 by TVA Films in Canada with 65 episodes.

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CATastrophe! : A Story of Patterns

A crew of hungry kittens and their captain head to the lake to catch some dinner, but the fish have surprises in store for them. Physics is at work too. What happens when confused kitties paddle every which way? Or when they all lean in the same direction? A pattern is needed to avoid a catastrophe!