
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.

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

Growing up, a Tex Avery cartoon meant something special was about to happen. Discover the legendary animator’s outrageous humour and the MGM cartoon collection celebrating his enduring legacy.

Anthony Perkins had a musical secret lurking beyond Psycho. Listen to his early jazz career, 1950s hit “Moon-Light Swim,” and rare recordings emerging from the shadows.

A personal journey from Elwy Yost’s Kubrick introductions to The Plot Thickens: Stanley and Criterion’s ultimate Kubrick collection.

Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop Art legacy takes center stage at the Whitney Museum’s Like New exhibition, exploring comic books, originality and today’s AI art debate.

Find the best free pumpkin carving stencils for Halloween, from classic jack-o’-lantern faces to cats, monsters and printable pop culture designs.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown reveals a surprisingly dark Halloween story about disappointment, faith, childhood cruelty and the kindness that can make things better.

August Lamm’s You Don’t Need a Smartphone sparks a funny, personal look at digital dependence, analog living, privacy and our obsession with apps.

McDonald’s and Lenovo turn recycled Happy Meal toy plastic into a French fry-shaped computer mouse, giving forgotten toys a clever second life.

Old cookbooks weren’t always harmless. Some mixed food, medicine and household chemistry in ways that can make Grandma’s apple pie look downright safe.

During the Siege of Paris, starving Parisians ate zoo animals. Here’s the bizarre story behind elephant, camel and kangaroo appearing on a Paris menu.

America has so much stuff that we now pay to store it. A funny look at self-storage, consumerism, collecting, George Carlin and our obsession with stuff.

Arkivism helps creators search millions of public-domain and CC0 artworks, photos and historical images from museums and archives in one place.

Meet Christina the Astonishing, Saint Denis and the Flying Friar, three unusual saints whose medieval stories are filled with remarkable legends, strange adventures and a touch of heavenly mayhem.

A mischievous Montreal raccoon leads to the story of Rascal the Raccoon, the 1977 anime that helped fuel Japan’s real-world raccoon pet boom.

Marvel and DC have turned movie credits into a guessing game. But how many hours are we willing to spend waiting for one last scene.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here is a healthy diet of books that you should have digested by now if you are an adult. B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites as edited by John Plotz. The collection of essays consists of books that are less popular but as significant as other major works.

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.

Let’s make this a thing. Thank you, @lartist. Bernie Sanders and his mittens are taking the internet by storm.

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.

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!