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Graphic design
from48 hills
3 days ago

Brian McDonald's waggish works key into an overstimulated world - 48 hills

Brian McDonald is a San Francisco collage artist known for his layered typography and themes of consumerism and absurdity.
Brooklyn
fromPublishersWeekly.com
5 days ago

Brooklyn to Get Its Own Comic Convention This Fall

Brooklyn will host its inaugural comics festival, the Brooklyn Expo of Comics, on November 14-15, organized by BODEGA to support local comic artists.
#bobs-burgers
Music
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

Bob's Burgers Should Cover More Joy Division Songs

Bob's Burgers covers Joy Division's 'Transmission' in a live performance by Bob and Gene Belcher.
Music
fromConsequence
6 days ago

Watch Bob's Burgers' Delightful Cover of Joy Division's "Transmission"

Bob's Burgers released a cover of Joy Division's 'Transmission' featuring Bob on vocals and Gene on synths during its mid-season break.
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Barbie Dream Fest Draws Unflaterring Comparisons To Willy Wonka Experience

"If I can dream it, then I can do it; I've got my girls with me, there's nothing to it," Fifth Harmony sang in their official Barbie anthem, 'Anything Is Possible.' Unfortunately, that didn't turn out to be true for attendees of Barbie Dream Fest, which is currently running in Fort Lauderdale, FL, from March 27-29. Fans are comparing the event to notorious convention disasters like the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience, DashCon, and Fyre Fest.
SF music
Miami food
fromConsequence
1 week ago

Barbie Dream Fest Is the New Willy Wonka Experience

Barbie Dream Fest faced significant criticism for underwhelming experiences and poor organization, leading attendees to compare it to infamous failed events.
#star-trek
Music production
from48 hills
1 week ago

Under the Stars: Welcome to the vibe edition - 48 hills

GENA is a collaborative debut album that embodies Black experimentalism and offers a fresh, genre-defying musical experience.
Humor
fromWIRED
1 week ago

The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse

Meta's Horizon Worlds faces shutdown, impacting community-driven VR experiences like the Soapstone Comedy Club.
NYC LGBT
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Still Writing The Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is being updated for its 15th anniversary, including new references and jokes about current events.
Typography
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The way the world is, something daft is appealing' why everything from pizzas to podcasts has a cartoon character on it

A distinctive visual style combining 1920s rubber hose animation, 1950s Americana, and contemporary graffiti aesthetics has become the dominant branding approach for independent food and beverage businesses since the late 2010s.
Books
fromEsquire
2 weeks ago

Why the Teenage Mutant Turtles Matter Again

Gene Luen Yang, a celebrated cartoonist, brings Asian American perspective to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by emphasizing their reincarnation mythology and cultural duality between Japan and America.
San Francisco
fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

FREE: SF's "Laugh GPT" AI-Powered Comedy Night (The Function)

Laugh GPT is an AI-powered comedy show in San Francisco where human comedians compete with artificial intelligence to determine who delivers funnier performances.
Marketing
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?

Silicon Valley has adopted 'taste' as a critical competitive advantage in the AI era, positioning it as the ability to discern profitable products and create unreplicable market advantages.
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Roz Chast's "City Beasts"

"I looked at many water towers to get an idea of their variety," Chast said, about her cover for the March 30, 2026, issue.
Graphic design
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
3 weeks ago

Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow - Smashing Magazine

Design quality depends on emotional pacing and flow management, not just visual elements. Successful products guide users through emotional states coherently, while poor design creates emotional conflicts through misplaced elements.
Television
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

24 Years Later, A Sci-Fi Cult Classic Is Getting A Shocking Reboot

An animated Firefly reboot is in development with most original cast members returning, set between Season 1 and the Serenity film, with creator Joss Whedon's approval.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

'New Humans' and the Strange End of Contemporary Art as We Know It | Artnet News

The 'New Humans' exhibition at the New Museum suggests contemporary art's project may be concluding, focusing broadly on future visions and modernist traditions rather than engaging with current technological anxieties.
Beer
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Burton Fest: Inspired by the Mind of Tim Burton (Easy Bay)

Burton Fest celebrates Tim Burton's aesthetic with themed experiences, gothic cocktails, and whimsical attractions across multiple immersive zones.
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

What to know about For the Win' exhibit coming to the American Museum of Natural History | amNewYork

For the Win brings together an extraordinary collection of objects that commemorate the defining moment of victory in sports, meticulously crafted from spectacular gems and minerals, and explores how athletics can resonate far beyond the field of play, Museum President Sean M. Decatur said.
Golden State Warriors
fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
3 weeks ago

"Like a Family Reunion": We Went to DC's Annual Black Nerd Convention - Washingtonian

I don't feel out of place like this. It's like a family reunion. I love the creativity that's always been here, said Tameka Hendon, who has been attending since 2019. She said her friend handmade her customized cosplay, which features a motorized rotating ballerina in the wig, and was inspired by Queen Charlotte's Swan wig in Bridgerton.
Washington DC
NYC politics
fromThe New Yorker
4 weeks ago

Frankie Focus, Attention-Grabber

New York Governor Kathy Hochul created Frankie Focus, a neon-green mascot, to promote her state policy banning smartphones and internet-enabled devices from schools.
Television
fromConsequence
3 weeks ago

Family Guy Spinoff Stewie Picked Up for Two Seasons

FOX has ordered a two-season Stewie spinoff centered on Family Guy's toddler character attending a new preschool, premiering in 2027-28.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Anthropic's Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now

Claude now generates custom charts, diagrams, and visualizations inline during conversations, automatically determining when visuals are useful or upon user request.
Independent films
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Pixar filmmakers really gave a dam about making Hoppers' authentic

Pixar's Hoppers prioritizes comedy and entertainment through a collaborative creative process where a teenage activist's consciousness transfers into a robotic beaver fighting to save a pond habitat.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Chris Fleming Prances, Scuttles, and Undulates Onto HBO

A woman's relationship with Trader Joe's is abstract. It's like the way women see Trader Joe's, it's the way the aliens from 'Arrival' view time. Unlike most men—who make a beeline straight for the same blue-corn tortilla chips that have been there since pre-Obama—women swan dreamily through the store, guided by their foremothers toward the strangest possible products.
Humor
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

How a prize-winning cartoonist brings hand-drawn comics to the web

American journalist Danny Fenster, imprisoned during Myanmar's 2021 coup, collaborated with cartoonist cousin Amy Kurzweil on an interactive comic documenting his six-month incarceration and psychological survival.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

An Ode To Pokemon's Ash Ketchum - Kotaku

After 25 years and over 1,200 episodes, Ash Ketchum retires as the Pokémon anime's protagonist, replaced by new characters Liko and Roy, marking the end of an era for longtime fans.
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Charlie Brown now works for Sony

Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment now officially own 80 percent of the Peanuts franchise. The companies have closed the deal, which was officially announced in December 2025 when it was still subject to regulatory approvals, for $460 million. Sony Music Japan has owned 39 percent of Peanuts since 2018, so the Sony subsidiaries are essentially buying 41 percent of the franchise from Canadian firm WildBrain with this transaction.
Television
Humor
fromVulture
1 month ago

'He Is Basically the Goop That's Inside a Lava Lamp'

Comedian Chris Fleming delivers hyperspecific, manic observational comedy wrapped in performance-art strangeness, creating absurdist humor through elaborate tangential narratives and surreal character dissections.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Smiling Friends to End After Three Seasons Due to Burnout

To be perfectly honest, after we finished season three, Zach and I just both had the same feeling where we felt pretty burnt out after putting years and years into this but also pretty accomplished. We just came to this feeling where we're like, 'I think that could just be it after season three.' We both felt like it was right.
Television
Television
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

One of TV's Best Sitcoms Is Ending Early. Fans Are Shocked-but It's Actually a Good Thing.

Smiling Friends creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel ended the show after Season 3 due to burnout, prioritizing quality over continuing with diminished creative energy.
Gadgets
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Here are my favorite things from Toy Fair 2026

Toy Fair 2026 showcased major releases including Transformers anniversary reissues and Matrix centerpiece, detailed Hot Wheels F1 and specialty models, and collectible toy lines.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

To infinity and beyond! Visitors can dive into Pixar worlds in immersive London show

Mundo Pixar Experience recreates 14 detailed Pixar film sets in Wembley for immersive, photo-friendly encounters with iconic scenes and research-driven design.
fromTime Out New York
2 months ago

The Paley Center's new PAC-MAN exhibit celebrates 45 years

The show traces how a simple yellow circle dreamed up in Japan in 1980 by designer Toru Iwatani grew into a global pop-culture heavyweight. From early arcade cabinets to living room consoles and far beyond, PAC-MAN redefined what video games could be, while still welcoming in first-time players. At the exhibition, visitors can jump straight into the action with classic Pixel Bash arcade cabinets, competitive rounds of PAC-MAN Battle Royale Chompionship and newer titles like PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC .
Miscellaneous
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI | TechCrunch

Back in December, when SFWA announced that it was updating its rules for the Nebula Awards. Works written entirely by large language models would not be eligible, while authors who used LLMs "at any point during the writing process" had to disclose that use, allowing award voters to make their own decisions about whether that usage would affect their support.
Writing
#scott-adams
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Star Trek beams into the Science Museum with films, props and late-night events

The Science Museum is boldly going where no science museum has (probably) gone before, opening a season of Star Trek events that beam sci-fi imagination straight into the realm of real science. To mark Star Trek's 60th anniversary, the Science Museum will launch several months of events with a late-evening opening of the museum for adults next month. The museum late takes place on Thursday 26th March, and will feature a range of Star Trek themed events throughout the evening.
Science
Media industry
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Barry Blitt's "Split Screen"

Eustace Tilley, the top-hatted dandy from The New Yorker’s first 1925 cover, remains the magazine’s iconic February mascot, appearing nearly every year.
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

How Scott Adams, creator of 'Dilbert,' made the most evil burrito in the world

The culinary monstrosity, created in 1999 by "Dilbert" cartoonist and Trump acolyte Scott Adams, is exactly what it sounds like. It's a burrito, except it's directly tied to his famous cartoon character that once accompanied thousands of newspapers circulating across the world. With its garish color scheme and debossed packaging, the vegetarian burritos - which contained blasphemous ingredients like corn, broccoli and dry vitamins - promised to provide cheap, nutritious meals to broke college students and weary office drones.
Food & drink
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth

As theschool's student newspaper The Sun Star reported, undergraduate student Graham Granger was arrested for criminal mischief after masticating at least 57 of the 160 images that had been carefully arranged by fine arts student Nick Dwyer. The incident was an eyebrow-raising illustration of the collective exhaustion with being surrounded by the outputs of generative AI, a fierce debate that has gripped the art world.
Higher education
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

How Punch the Monkey Captured the Hearts of Artists

An abandoned baby macaque named Punch clings to a stuffed orangutan as a surrogate comfort object, inspiring global fan art and protective online response.
Design
fromBored Panda
2 months ago

24 Signs That Turned Out To Be So Hilariously Absurd, People Had To Share Them

Humorously odd signs around the world provide lighthearted relief while effective sign design considers audience, message, environment, function, fabrication, and installation.
#comedy
Music
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Primus' Les Claypool Announces Frizzle Fry Graphic Novel

Les Claypool will release the graphic novel Frizzle Fry: Phantoms of Barrington Hall on October 10 via Z2 Comics.
Higher education
from48 hills
1 month ago

'Pride in Panels' fest inks in queer cartoon brilliance - 48 hills

Vanderbilt purchased California College of the Arts, creating uncertainty about which arts programs—especially the queer-rooted Comics program—will be preserved and how students will proceed.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

An Experimental Director Is Bringing 'The Simpsons' Into The Post-Apocalypse

A stage play reimagines The Simpsons as a post-apocalyptic myth that evolves from campfire retelling to ritualized tragedy across decades.
Science
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Night of Science: Fact, Fiction, and the Future of Autism Research (SF)

An evening public event presents Dr. Matt State and Victoria Colliver for talks and a fireside chat on autism and neuropsychiatric research, followed by a public Q&A.
#anime
SF music
from48 hills
2 months ago

Sketchfest stars reflect on wild comedy journeys: 'I worked at two Starbucks' - 48 hills

SF Sketchfest transforms San Francisco into a two-week hub where comedians, musicians, and performers reunite, experiment live, and create unexpected collaborations.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Chris Fleming's Bitmoji-Filled Tour de Force

No one could accuse Fleming of tailoring his act to please a conventional audience. His stage attire lies somewhere between "androgynous hipster" and "clown," and his only criteria for a premise appears to be "What does my brain fixate on?" He expects his audience to keep up with any cultural reference his Massachusetts-born, millennial, Skidmore arts-graduate brain might make without ever stopping to explain what, say, "Gatsby-esque" might mean in the context of Bitmoji.
Humor
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Primus announce new graphic novel 'Frizzle Fry: Phantoms of Barrington Hall'

Primus will release Frizzle Fry: Phantoms of Barrington Hall, a psychedelic graphic novel by Les Claypool, on October 10 via Z2 Comics.
#ai-advertising
from9to5Mac
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Anthropic pokes fun at ads in ChatGPT with Superbowl ad [Video] - 9to5Mac

from9to5Mac
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Anthropic pokes fun at ads in ChatGPT with Superbowl ad [Video] - 9to5Mac

fromFuturism
2 months ago

Sani Diego Comic Con Quietly Bans AI Art

The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive convention - which has become a melting pot of all kinds of pop entertainment beyond the comic medium, with everyone ranging from game developers to movie studios using it as a platform to tease new content - has allowed some AI art to be displayed, so long as it was labeled as such and wasn't for sale, as well as other stipulations that have been in place since at least 2024, according to 404.
Arts
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Till Lauer's "Targeted"

Till Lauer's February 9, 2026 cover evokes ICE killings in Minneapolis and warns that both First and Second Amendment liberties are no longer guaranteed.
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Free AI + Art Panel: Future of Storytelling (SF)

As AI continues to reshape our understanding of reality, ownership, and storytelling, how do artists and technologists navigate this new landscape? Earth Oracle brings together diverse perspectives to discuss the tools, ethics, and potential of our digital future. The evening will begin with a special presentation by artist Delphine Diallo, followed by a panel discussion featuring Clarisse Neu (Google DeepMind) and Patricia Buffa (Adobe).
Artificial intelligence
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 16th

Jason Adam Katzenstein is a cartoonist and a comedy writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker since 2014.
Humor
#cartooning
Television
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

A decade of Star Trek-themed fart jokes: The Greatest Generation podcast turns 10

Two podcasters transformed a Star Trek recap project into a decade-long full-time career with episode-by-episode recaps, original segments, a dedicated fandom, and spin-offs.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

The 800th 'The Simpsons' episode is set in Philadelphia. But Portland is in its DNA

The Simpsons' 800th episode airs Sunday; many character names were inspired by Portland street names from creator Matt Groening's hometown.
Artificial intelligence
fromIntelligencer
1 month ago

The Robot Posters Aren't Alive ... Yet

Thousands of independent AI agents on a social platform produced humanlike interactions, emergent culture, and unsettling coordinated behavior suggesting potential for unexpected collective agency.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

No Cap: SNL Just Killed Gen Z Slang

On last night's Saturday Night Live, we learned that time stops for nothing-not people and not language. Marcello Hernández, the cast member perhaps most likely to become SNL's next breakout star, dropped by the "Weekend Update" desk to inform the Millennial co-anchor Colin Jost-and, by proxy, many Millennial audience members-of the slang terms favored by Gen Z.
fromianVisits
2 months ago

Thunderbirds and Space:1999 exhibition gets mission extension

The original closing date for the Museum of Brands' exhibition devoted to all things Gerry and Sylvia Anderson has been affected by a critical systems failure! After an emergency consultation between Tracy Island and Moonbase Alpha, a new flight plan has been authorised. Revised mission duration: now extended to 18th April 2026. Commander Koenig has confirmed there is no need to evacuate the gallery, Professor Bergman says the data is "far too valuable to abandon," and Doctor Russell has ruled out premature closure.
Television
Television
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

NASA stage show explores "outer" outer space with Henson's Fraggles

NASA partnered with Fraggle Rock to create a Kennedy Space Center stage show featuring Uncle Traveling Matt exploring 'outer outer space' to promote deep-space plans.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Conformity Gate Is Real, But Only on SNL

It was a Stranger Things spinoff showcase on Saturday Night Livelast night. In the pre-taped sketch, the Duffer Brothers had some success getting the cast back together to film an internet-demanded ninth episode.
Television
fromInverse
2 months ago

The Creator of Star Trek's Beloved Canceled Series Just Got a New Sci-Fi Show

It's hard to make peace with the end of a new Star Trek show, especially after years without any Star Trek on the small screen at all - and especially when it comes to a great show like Lower Decks. The Trek franchise is always searching for a new corner of the final frontier to explore, but the animated comedy felt like the freshest addition to the world in decades.
Television
Television
fromWIRED
2 months ago

'Fallout' Producer Jonathan Nolan on AI: 'We're in Such a Frothy Moment'

AI will aid aspiring filmmakers' entry into the industry but is unlikely to replace human creators on major Hollywood blockbuster projects.
fromInverse
2 months ago

Hulu Just Quietly Released The Most Ridiculous Sci-Fi Show Of The Year

I try to be a sophisticated TV viewer. I watch as many miniseries as I can, keep up to date with the latest in Prestige TV, and make sure I don't miss out on any sleeper hits. However, I'm also self-actualized enough to admit that I love my fair share of slop. I religiously watch RuPaul's Drag Race, 90 Day Fiancé, and whatever weird reality craze has grasped pop culture.
Television
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