Come as You Are
Remembering Joe Brainard in letters to friends, lovers, and fans
Exotic Dancers Union
Podcast episode about the workers at the Lusty Lady strip club in San Francisco who in 1997 were the first women who managed to unionise a strip joint in the…
The Bright Legacy of Dark Shadows
Next year marks the 60th anniversary of Dark Shadows. The gothic soap opera wasn’t originally intended to include a vampire, but when creator Dan Curtis introduced the character of Barnabas…
If you know the true story behind this comic, it changes everything
The two real world tragedies surround the James O'Barr's comic masterpiece, The Crow.
How Hulk Hogan Ruined Wrestling Unions
Published May 9, 2022 Hilariously, Hogan’s own daughter, Brooke questioned why professional wrestling had no union and a quick Google Search told her that her father was responsible for the…
The comic that cost this writer his life
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fandom in the Norman V. Lamb Gothic Fantasy Collection
Queen’s University Library has been collaborating with the Internet Archive on a digitization project that uses Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to digitally loan items from our print collection using technological…
What’s Fair Is Fair: Why ‘The Legend of Billie Jean’ Is Still Invincible, 40 Years Later
Stars Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, and Yeardley Smith, plus director Matthew Robbins and super-fan Emily V. Gordon tell IndieWire why a film that notoriously bombed in theaters has emerged as…
William F. Buckley’s Bill Never Came Due
This is among the great revelations of Buckley: its subject’s endless willingness to lie. Over and over we watch Buckley slander, deceive, withhold information, and defend the falsity of others.…