Lars Krantz is one of those geeks you bullied all the way through high school for playing Dungeons and Dragons and listening to heavy metal. Now he’s turned out to be one of Sweden’s most promising comic artists. Since Charles Burns is near and dear to his heart, he makes really scary pictures with one foot safely planted in reality and the other one in the grave. If you live in Scandinavia, you should pick up his debut comic album Dödvatten (Death Water) before the hype hits-–otherwise you’ll be left without, standing alone like you just dropped your ice cream cone on the sidewalk. Here are some illustrations he did for us of Josef Fritzl, a series called Prisoner of Decay.
Archive for June, 2009
Russian cops are cruel, cruel masters
Russia is so infinitely big that there is infinite possibility within its endless tundra. Which means that, theoretically, anything you can imagine happening is happening there now. You want a baby that looks like a lorry combing its hair? It’ll be there. You want a shop that sells packets of chocolate wrinkles advertised by flaming midget harlequin pheasants? Just go east. You want a community which celebrates a policeman who tortures his daughters with darts, knives, broken glass and swords? Yup, they got it, and we actually found that one. Click beneath. Read more »
An evening with Vernon Kay’s All Star Family Fortunes
Vernon Kay’s All Star Family Fortunes isn’t something you can just watch on the telly. It loses so much of its visceral impact, filtered and mediated through the tube, plasticised via ITV’s televisual cartoonifier. No, to truly enjoy Vernon Kay’s All Star Family Fortunes, you’ve got to watch it in person, while it’s being recorded, because it is a piece of theatre. It’s basically Godot with fabulous prizes. Read more »
Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath: How much coke is bad for me?
A dentist friend treated a woman who had done so much cocaine it had rotted a hole between her nose and mouth, as well as perforating her septum. That shits on Daniella Westbrook. This woman had a 3cm by 1.5cm wide black rancid pit on the roof of her mouth through which her rotting nose would drip. Her mouth was her brain’s own colostomy bag. Read more »
The fashion police
In Marburg, Louis Vuitton just sued a Red Cross outpost for selling a fake Louis Vuitton bag for as little as three Euros and almost caused that place to shut down because they couldn’t afford a 2,600 Euro penalty. At least the company went back on this after realizing that this would result in a public image of pure evil. But it’s a fact that Louis Vuitton is the world’s most counterfeited brand.
An interview with Donnie Andrews, the real-life Omar Little
By now, if you haven’t watched The Wire or read Homicide and The Corner, the two astonishing books that acted as source material for the HBO series, something’s seriously lacking from your life. If you have you’ll know that Omar Little, the incredibly violent but still strongly moral stick-up artist, is one of the most compelling fictional creations ever to slam a shotgun into a dealer’s face.
Except he’s not wholly a fictional creation – his life and modus operandi was inspired by Donnie Andrews, a former stick-up artist, convicted murderer and all-round Baltimore bad-ass. After spending 18 years in jail he’s been working with his local communities back in Maryland and there’s currently a film being made of his life by Brad Pitt’s production company. I recently had a chat with Donnie. Read more »
Painting the town (and below my waist) red
Periods suck. Girls must hate them, guys almost certainly do. There’s little more annoying than when you’re in a relationship and it seems like, sexually, you’ve got the make of her and then BAM, just like that, a crimson tide tsunamis your sex life for anything up to a week. Sure, I’ve had girlfriends who’ve given the occasional period blow job and even let me hit them up when it was “almost done” but there’s nothing like the surprise of being up in those guts as it hits, especially with one-night stands. Read more »
Mourning Michael Jackson
With all the coverage of Farrah Fawcett’s untimely passing, you might not have heard that Michael Jackson also died last Thursday. The handful of fans that heard the news gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square on Friday to mourn the passing of their idol. I joined them and took pictures so you could see what I saw. Read more »
Summer of Slumra
Matthew Thurber is a tall, skinny guy with dark hair and glasses who reminds me of my childhood best friend. In the past I said bad things about him on the internet because I was in a bad mood and it created a rift so big that I thought we would never be able to see eye to eye, but we have reached across a grand canyon of bad blood and shaken hands. He’s a funny guy and his comics are a fun and dreamy time. Matthew does a comic called 1-800 Mice, he did this awesome comic for Vice, he was in that giant Kramer’s Ergot #7, he was in an awesome band called Soiled Mattress and the Springs and another band, Ambergris, that may have been awesome but I can’t trust my own judgment. Read more »
The updownleftright super mega store
My wife, Tania, and I were recently invited to Beijing to do a story on the Chinese government’s interest in making skateboarding part of their Olympic program. An interesting story to be sure, but I was most excited about sampling some fucked-up Chinese food. Read more »
Smellier sex smells in Milan
When we put together Kikko’s disastrous sex odyssey in the land of pheromones (i.e., Milan’s nightclubs), we had to cut out some of the dozens of photos we had for obvious constraints of space in the magazine. But with the internet, we can just run anything we damn well please, because the internet never ends and has no limits! It’s wonderful. So here’s another score of pictures taken on that infamous night, including a few more choice cuts of Kikko’s nosebleed-barf double-action, and a couple of heartmelters of Kikko gently fading into sweet slumber at the end of a night he’ll never forget. Or, according to him, of a night he “forgot all about” because he was too wasted. I guess these’ll jog your memory, Kikko. Read more »
The best new site we’ve ever seen (today)
We’ve just stumbled across the best way to waste a good chunk of your day. The website xtranormal.com allows you to turn text into animated video. The best thing is, even idiots like you can do it without much thought.
We pasted in a random iChat conversation between two people in our office today and (after a bit of fiddling) out popped the above video. See if you can make something which is more hopelessly pointless, and then post the link in the comments so the rest of the world can be in awe of you.
A pirate in German parliament
Just two weeks after the Swedish Pirate Party won a seat in the European Parliament, the German Pirate Party scored their own seat in the German government, too. Pirates are tiresome in movies, as a movement, in real life on the water, on the internet, and as any kind of fashion iconography of any sort… but in the actual for-real government? That’s maybe kind of interesting. Read more »
Dos and Dont’s
This was a prototype “visual stimulant” doctors were developing to replace that little rubber hammer they use to test your reflexes, but they had to abandon the project because people were kicking way too hard.
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Canadian goths are as stoops as Mexican goths. The former are too bundled up to be scary and the latter are too tanned to be dead.
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