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Angel, Angel, Down We Go [aka "Cult of the Damned"] [1969]
Psychedelia and misanthropy are two foundations of my entertainment food pyramid and as such, you’ll have a difficult time convincing me that there’s a more pleasurable form of fiction than the kind...
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Brooklyn Zine Fest – This Weekend 4/26 and 4/27
Brooklyn Zine Fest returns this weekend and adds a second day for all you paper-media lovers. Head on over to the Brooklyn Historical Society, check out a wildly eclectic selection of independent...
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Requiem Vampire Knight – Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit
Click to Enlarge The concept behind Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit’s sumptuously perverse serialized comic “Requiem Vampire Knight” concentrates everything I want in a story into one super-powered hit...
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Introducing Heretical Sexts
I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for some time now. Heretical Sexts is a micro-publishing imprint that I’m editing and curating, with titles focusing on the dark and bizarre....
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Death Bed: The Bed that Eats – Coming to the Stage!
The internet is a vast and mysterious force that brings together creative people with wild ideas. Though I respond to only a handful of the pitches and news releases that make their way into my inbox,...
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Pariah, Missouri: Comics and the Weird West
Click to Enlarge One of the beautiful things about the new channels available for the distribution for art, writing and film is that they’ve enabled me to pretty much opt out of mainstream...
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My Dream Date with a Villain PLUS Brooklyn Brain Jam
Click me to buy me! I’m excited to announce that the very first publication from Heretical Sexts is now available. My Dream Date with a Villain is a collaboration between 14 staggeringly talented...
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October Events: Brides of Satan and Turkish Spider-Man
It’s creepy season for the rest of the world* once again, which means it’s super-busy season for me! I’ve been invited to participate in two exciting variety show events that you should add to your...
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Who Is Turkish Spider-Man?
Spider-Man is one of the most iconic superheroes in the US, a teenager who is bitten by a radioactive spider and is gifted with amazing agility and preternatural senses, using his new-found powers to...
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Canaan Cult Revival: Demonic Comics for Occult Horror Die-hards
Once in a while, a project comes across my radar that screams “THIS IS FOR ME.” A combination of creepy, decadent, fantastical, and creative, this kind of project begs for my attention. One such...
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New Zine: Forever Doomed
Click to Enlarge I’m excited to announce that my latest project is now available from Heretical Sexts. Forever Doomed is a collection of my essays and art that explore the theme of DOOM in movies,...
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“Dead Snow 2,”“Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” Splatstick and Specters of...
Splatstick and the Specters of the Past: Tommy Wirkola’s Nazi Zombies and Killer Witches DUMB MOVIES, SMART IDEAS I’m firm believer that movies (and books and art and comics and whatever creative...
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Visit Me at Brooklyn Zine Fest on April 26
This Sunday, April 26 2015, I will be manning the Heretical Sexts table at Brooklyn Zine Fest. As an attendee of the event since its first year, I’m delighted to be participating on the vendor side of...
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Vampires vs Dancing Queens, Verhoeven’s Nazi Melodrama, the Sounds of Horror...
The following are some movies I’ve watched recently that made enough of an impression one way or another to merit a post here. Consider these my personal pro/con recommendations for stuff you can...
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New Zine: Witch Women from Heretical Sexts
Nurse your Walpurgisnacht hangovers with Witch Women, the brand new zine from my micropress Heretical Sexts. I was able to collaborate with some of my favorite artists and authors for this exploration...
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Historical Sluttery, Ilsa, and Bonnie and Maude – Spring 2015 Art
There are a lot of wonderful consequences to having creative friends. The artists, performers, and writers I’m fortunate enough to be surrounded by are a constant source of inspiration for me. As a...
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A Tale of Three Livias: Female Desire and Military Decadence in Senso
“Senso:” the title of Camillo Boito’s 1882 novella evokes the senses, primal feelings that are more immediate than reason. A stunning work of decadent fiction, “Senso” is the story of Livia, a...
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Iron Man for the First Time and Samurai Reincarnation
I’m not real big on “joining,” so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that up until a couple of weeks ago I had never seen any of the recent Marvel movies. In fact, I think the “Blade” movies and “Howard...
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Cataclysmic Decadence in Porta Nigra’s “Kaiserschnitt”
Music puts me at a loss for words. Maybe I just prefer to let the visceral experience of bathing in sound remain a private one. Today, I’m going to make an exception to this muteness because I simply...
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Teen Witches, Russian Bloodsuckers, and Lunatics Running the Asylum: Recent...
It’s that time again: here’s some stuff I’ve watched recently that you, too, can view on your streaming service of choice. The Sisterhood of Night (2014) As the one woman my age who was not enchanted...
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