Perspectives A Camera Negative Holds the Cartoon, Not the Cereal Show Around It Restoring Quick Draw McGraw means rebuilding cartoons, titles, and the sponsored broadcast around them.
Perspectives October 12, 2026 A Camera Negative Holds the Cartoon, Not the Cereal Show Around It Restoring Quick Draw McGraw means rebuilding cartoons, titles, and the sponsored broadcast around them.
Perspectives October 9, 2026 What Is the Amen Break? The Drum Solo That Brought Its Drummer No Sampling Royalties A 1969 B-side became a foundation for several genres, while its musicians received no sampling royalties
Perspectives October 2, 2026 Worldcon’s First Fight Was Over the Door Six Futurians were barred in 1939, and each side told the reason differently.
Perspectives September 22, 2026 Juana Alicia Worked the Lettuce Fields Before She Painted Them She is part of a city-backed project receiving up to $129,294 to restore six murals.
Perspectives September 6, 2026 One Sample, Three Legal Periods, Three Decades Germany's highest civil court upheld the use of a two-second Kraftwerk sample after June 2021, while an earlier period remains under constitutional review.
Perspectives August 12, 2026 A Boxed Set Preserved the Skateboard Museum’s Zines, but Not Their Event Context Five exhibition-only zines entered ISBN retail distribution in 2020 as updated editions in a 352-page slipcase.
Perspectives August 12, 2026 The Blank Disc at the Center of the Vinyl Boom Traditional lacquer mastering still depends on a sole commercial manufacturer in Japan, even as that company plans a second production line.
Perspectives August 12, 2026 Comic Shops After Diamond’s Near-Monopoly Broke How Diamond's 2025 bankruptcy coincided with record shop sales and a more fragmented distribution model.
Perspectives August 12, 2026 A Field Guide to One of the World’s Longest-Running Graffiti Meetups Norway just hosted its first Meeting of Styles. The event has repeated a version of the same ritual in city after city since a German slaughterhouse complex facing demolition in 1997.
Perspectives August 12, 2026 Skateboarding Keeps Rediscovering the Zine A recent zine built from screenshotted skatepark fight videos is a small clue to something larger: skateboarding's oldest reflex, put it on paper, never actually disappeared.