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Art by Rand Holmes for Gay Comix No. 1, September 1980.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 In the universe next door, Los Angeles in November, 2019 looks like the drawings in the Blade Runner Sketchbook<\/em><\/a> (1982). The book has been out of print for many years but available online for a while, although seldom in a downloadable form. A recent upload at the Internet Archive remedies this. In addition to the familiar Syd Mead designs for flying cars and street furniture there are some Moebius-like doodles by Ridley Scott, and Mead’s design for Tyrell’s cryogenic crypt, a detail that would have formed part of an unfilmed sub-plot.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Howard Cruse<\/a>, comic artist and pioneering editor of the first few issues of Gay Comix<\/em> in the 1980s. Cruse produced work outside the gay sphere (I first encountered his strips in Heavy Metal<\/em>) but the stories that he and other artists created for Gay Comix<\/em> (later Gay Comics<\/em>) were some of the first by lesbians and gay men chronicling their own lives, as opposed to porn fantasies or the more recent trend of bolting a token sexuality to a superhero. John Seven<\/a> talked to Cruse about his career in 2007.<\/p>\n \u2022 “On the eve of the First World War Stefan George had started recruiting his own twink army…” Well, if you really must<\/em> have an army… Strange Flowers<\/a> presents part one of a guide to the city of Vienna.<\/p>\n \u2022 In Wild Air, 2016\u20132018<\/a>: all 72 of Heath Killen’s requests for a list of six interesting things from artists, writers, scientists, ecologists, musicians, historians and others. My answers are at number 55.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Satan is a friend of mine”: Sander Bink<\/a> on a forgotten occult novel, Goetia<\/em> (1893) by Frits Lapidoth.<\/p>\n \u2022 Picturing a voice: Rob Mullender-Ross<\/a> on Margaret Watts-Hughes and the Eidophone.<\/p>\n \u2022 “They broke the rules”: Killian Fox<\/a> on the film posters of the French New Wave.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Jan \u0160vankmajer<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ogi No Mato<\/a><\/em> (1976) by Ensemble Nipponia | R\u00eave<\/em><\/a> (1979) by Vangelis | Blade Runner Esper “Retirement” Edition, Part III<\/em><\/a> (1982)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"