On HU

Featured Archive Post: Emily Thomas on new text adventure games.

Ng Suat Tong on We Stand on Guard and Brian K. Vaughan’s hackishness.

David James reviews Rich Scranton’s book on global catastrophe.

Chris Gavaler on drawing words in comics.

Me with a review of the documentary Caucus.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics from March/April 1952.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I argued that aesthetics needs to consider racism.

At the Establishment I wrote about Orientalism, Beyonce, and that crappy Coldplay video.

At Playboy I wrote about DeRay Mckesson’s Baltimore mayoral bid and black lives matter’s willingness to try new tactics.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—Be Steadwell’s Jaded Dark Love Songs and queer sadness.

—how the Republican establishment seems to be doing fine.
 
Other Links

Ta-Nehisi Coates on pragmatism and reparations.

Avital Norman Nathman and Deborah Wage on frightening expectant mothers for profit.

 
On HU

Me on Moto Hagio’s short story A Drunken Dream.

Chris Gavealer on closure, framing, and the Walking Dead.

Me on As Good As It Gets, love, healing, and bullshit.

Me on Jen Kirkman and condescending to mothers.

mouse on furries invading the mainstream on the cover of Island.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics from Jan/Feb 1952.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I made the case for disarming the police.

At the Guardian I talked about Oscarssowhite and how Pam Griet, not Helen Hunt, should have won the 1998 Oscar for Best Actress.

At Random Nerds I wrote about male victims and female rapists in Jessica Jones.

At the Establishment I wrote about

—Alexander Hamilton and the history of immigrants bashing immigrants.

—why using hackers to disrupt sex trafficking is a bad idea.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—how Bernie Sanders thinks socialism will address racism, and why it won’t necessarily

—Patrick Breen’s Nat Turner biography and how his story doesn’t fit into Hollywood tropes.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote about retro thrash band Warhead.

Other Links

This is a thoroughly depressing story about a woman who was trafficked, “rescued” by police, and then ended up being arrested and put on a sex offender registry.

Project Runway Season 7 dress by Mila Hermanovski

 
On HU

Featured Archive Post: My illustrations for Wallace Stevens’ 13 Ways of Looking At a Blackbird.

Robert Stanley Martin on Patrick Modiano’s 2014 novel So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood.

Chris Gavaler classifies abstraction in comics.

I answered twitter questions about freelance writing.

Me on how women’s genre fiction doesn’t fit the Bechdel Test.

Robert Stanley Martin shows you the Pogo collection you could have bought in sept/oct 1951.

 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Playboy I wrote about Alan Rickman’s greatest performance on film.

At the Guardian I wrote about Project Runway and how you don’t need to be a superstar to make a living in fashion.

At Random Nerds I wrote about Paul Atreides and the Mary Sue power of being a white guy.

At the Establishment I wrote about Project Runway and the pettiness of making art.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—my favorite hip hop albums of the year, by Father and Death Grips.

—Hitler, Staling, and how the U.S. collaborates with ISIS.
 
Other Links

Adam Epstein on oscars so white.

This album by Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud is amazing.

Smart little discussion of how television companies gender segregate their content.
 

News

So I’m thinking it may be time for another roundtable? Anyone have any topics they’d like to have us talk about?
 
On HU

Featured Archive Post: Michael Kupperman on his miserable experience at the New York times.

The 25 best albums of the year.

Me on not being able to sew in Project Runway.

Chris Gavaler on the different kinds of panel-to-panel transitions in comics.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics from July and August 1951.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about Rahm Emanuel’s big fat Taser lie.

At the Guardian I wrote about why academics studying romance is worthwhile.

At Random Nerds I wrote about Star Trek and how legacy series stifle diversity (or sometimes don’t.)

At the Establishment I wrote about:

—misogyny (or the lack thereof) in Hateful Eight.

—using genre to exclude women at Angouleme.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—George Lucas’ brave battle against capitalism.

—the digital hippie music of Elfmilk and Eartheater.
 
Other Links

Comics and Cola did a roundup of important comics moments from the last year, chosen by David Brothers, Kim O’Connor, and a bunch of other folks.

The Intercept on Saudi Arabia’s media stooges.

Paola and B.J. May with some suggestions for reforming twitter.

News

I’m going to list my favorite albums of the year on Monday; if anyone wants to write about their favorite music of the year, let me know, and we could set up a mini-roundtable. (Or not, if no one cares.)

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Samantha Meir on Tits and Clits.

Philip Smith on Donald Barthelme’s Paul Klee.

Chris Gavaler on visual sentences vs. page layout.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics in May/June 1951.

I list some of the favorite things I wrote this year.

A look back at the year at the Hooded Utilitarian.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I wrote about the new Grant Morrison Wonder Woman and how its true to WW’s BDSM roots.

At the Establishment I wrote about rape/revenge films and shuffling gender roles.

At Splice Today I wrote about Jon Ronson, King of the online morals police.
 
Other Links

Todd Nickerson writes about being attracted to children and why talking about that is important in combatting child rape and molestation.

Mary Emily O’Hara on the year in sex worker activism.

Angelica Jade Bastien with the case against colorblind casting.

 
On HU

Short week this time out because of the holiday.

Featured Archive Post: Richard Cook with a history of Storm in covers.

Me on Charles Dickens fan fiction and how fan fic and criticism and art are all the same.

Chris Gavaler looks at panels and framing in comics.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sales dates of comics from March and April 1951.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Playboy

— I ranked every character in Quentin Tarantino’s movies. 16000+ words for 183 characters.

—I had a list of this year’s biggest whitewashing casting controversies.

At the Guardian I wrote about

—erasing the lesbian origins of the Bechdel test.

—casting a black Hermione and the confused racial themes of Harry Potter.

At Quartz I wrote about race in Hateful Eight.

At Random Nerds I wrote about the Last Days of Ms. Marvel and apocalypse from the margins.

At the Los Angeles Times I wrote about this year in outrage.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—the three best country albums of 2015.

—best of lists and the marketing machine.

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Mahendra Singh on the draftsmanship of Jeffrey Catherine Jones.

Chris Gavaler on analyzing comics layout.

Me on why writing for hire isn’t spiritual debasement.

Me on Robocop 2 and the joy of hating children.

Roy T. Cook tries to tell Indiana Jones from Harrison Ford.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from the end of 1950, including the first graphic novel ever.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I :

—interviewed William Richards on his new book about psychedlics and spiritual experience.

—wrote about Lex Luthor, Jr, and corporate fan fiction.

At the Establishment I wrote about my son’s acting career and the myth of meritocracy.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—Project Runway and how people suck and friends don’t win.

—why Trump is not the future.
 
Other Links

Mistress Matisse on the James Deen accusations and how the law doesn’t care about sex workers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on hope, or lack thereof.

Neil Drumming on diversity on Project Runway.