Kyle Baker's two-volume history of Nat Turner, an African slave who led a bloody revolt in the American south, is gripping, heart-wrenching, and glorious. I first encountered Baker's work in his uproariously funny Why I Hate Saturn and I pegged him immediately as a deliriously funny, raunchy comic creator that I wanted to follow for the rest of my life.
But the Nat Turner books are nothing like Why I Hate Saturn and many of his other books -- they've every bit as brilliant, but without a shred of whimsy. Instead, these expressively illustrated black-and-white pages, with almost no text (what text there is is lifted from Turner's confession before he went to his execution) are as savage a tale of the slave-trade as you could hope to find.
Great artists are often incredibly versatile and Baker is no exception. These books will haunt me.
Link to book 1,
Link to book 2,
Link to Kyle Baker's pages for the Nat Turner collections
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When I visited Honey Island Swamp, in the 1980s, the Star Wars movies had obviously made an impact on the local naming of the Honey Island Swamp Monster. Locals in the area some miles outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, were calling their Honey Island cryptid, casually, for example, by naming their small swamp boats (wrongly spelled) “Wookie.” The Star Wars movies came first, and there is no evidence that the Honey Island Swamp Monster was called a “Wookie” or a “Wookiee” before 1977.
An 11-year-old boy in Alabama shot a monstrously large wild hog. It's an AP story, so I am guessing this astonishing photo is legit. 
More pictures of the hog that are a bit more realistic. The hog definitely is not as impressive as the original news photo. 
Biblically, a man’s right to chastise and discipline his wife is strongly implied. Just as a parent would never stop to ask permission to chastise his child, a husband should not have to obtain consent to discipline his wife; however, our legal system has put him in the position of having to do so. Just as our culture is turned upside down in so many other things, the traditional Christian marriage is no exception.
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A lifetime of creative inspiration is contained in the brilliant closing credit sequence of the Ernie Kovacs Show. 
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GAMA-GO and Last Gasp have teamed up to make a gem of a book.
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Today, the main oposition party in Croatian parliament (SDP - Social Democratic Party) walked out of Parliament after Mr. Ivica Kirina (Interior Minister) accused the SDP of publishing videos about him on YouTube.
Today on SomethingAwful's Photoshop Phriday: Children's book covers made demented.
IZ Reloaded sez, "This song and dance clip taken from a Hindustani film (I think) has got to be one of the weirdest ever to come out from the Bollywood studios. The lousy special effects used for the flying scenes - you can look through both of them - coupled with really horrendous Superman and Spiderwoman costumes, make this a real classic!"
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