Out this week is the 2000AD Winter Special, which has not one but two stories by Vic Fluro (in his secret identity name). 2000AD used to have a convention whereby it printed the price across the rest of solar system, and this is where most of the cop[…]

…and they’re terrified of old women! “ARCH HUMOUR…INTERRUPTING FANTASY…MUST…KEEP….WANKIN’….”[…]

I just read that the first ever “op ed page” appeared in the New York Times in 1970 (21 September) — “op ed” as in space handed over to rival blowhards, to counter the editorial pages (which are as old as newspapers the[…]

Do you know you are famous when
a) They make a comic book of your life?
or
b) Said comicbook is so detailed it depicts your circumcision?[…]

Here at Freakytrigger we are always scouring the papers for pointless phrases which are rounded up in dispiritingly small minded articles. And now to join our perennial favourites “Political Correctness Gone Mad” and “Just A Bit Of […]

all london-based FT posters on standby: equiv mass-crit opportunity not sighted since they cancelled POKEMON ON ICE!

(heads-up courtesy chuck at ilc)[…]

Draft Definition: moments in mass-produced art characterised by a rapid turnover of ideas and an emphasis on sensation over execution. (The triumph of the gimmick and the novelty).
Thrill-power it seems to me arises in circumstances where creative in[…]

the krew rereads the (i think 98) REAL ACTUAL (tranlated) OEUVRES of the NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FOR LIT startin w. handsome Sully Prudhomme (see below), not so much to discuss and dissect — this will occur naturally — as to see if we can pos[…]

i like banksy’s work a lot, for good sentimental-personal reasons — there’s a lot of it dotting the grim reaches round old street, which i often used to have to pass through on the way to work, before i knew who he was, and at the […]

I don’t read trad SF often these days, but was interested to notice in Farthest Star, by Fred Pohl & Jack Williamson (from 1975, though spiritually of an earlier age), some differences similar to ones that are much talked about in comic bo[…]