Zombie Casting Call

So you want to be a zombie? Special FX wizard Ed Martinez is looking for zombies for a music video filming Sunday, March 21st. He’s desperate, so humans may apply. He’ll make it work. That’s his job! The shoot is in Los Gatos near San Jose. If you’re interested,...

All Day Anime

Erin Orison, zombie press. That’s right, I’m reporting from WonderCon at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, April 2-4, 2010. It’s a giant sci-fi/fantasy/comics prowl. Major comic publishers like DC Comics, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, and Oni Press, will be there. Our pal,...

Clapping Mohawks

When it’s this crazy, it just has to be shared. Don’t let the fact that it’s in Japanese stop you. Some things transcend language—like this ad for Mandom Gatsby Moving Rubber Spiky Edge to keep your mohawk stiff. Yeah, love that Gatsby wax. That’s it for the Slice...

Butchering Baudelaire

Clément loves Baudelaire and wrestled his translation of “Lethe” into the daily slice. A collection of Baudelaire’s poems, Les Fleurs du mal, was first published in 1857 by the poet’s friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis. It created a sensation. Eleven hundred copies...

High Voltage Voltaire

Out, out damned hypocrisy! Trust us, every supernatural being loves Voltaire. No, not the dead satirist … the ultra-dark and daring artist-musician. Are you in the 21st Century? Check out his music. It says it all. Folk, goth, darkwave, dark cabaret, new wave, whatever …...