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A colleague and friend of mine from the New School directed me to this special report today. Apparently the cleanup site of the oil hemorrhaging into the gulf is the perfect place for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials to pick up undocumented workers. Seriously: These Hispanic workers have been accused of taking away jobs from [...]

I was pretty excited when I found out that Fantagraphics was publishing an anthology of “The Best American Comics Criticism.” When I picked it up from my local comics shop (shout out to the fabulous staff at G-Mart!), I popped over to the bar around the corner, settled in with a cocktail, and began to [...]

A social media campaign is under way to get writer/comedian Donald Glover an audition for Hollywood’s latest Spider-Man reboot. Glover is primarily known for his role as Troy in NBC’s sitcom Community, but was also a writer for 30 Rock. As of last night, the campaign #donald4spiderman was a trending topic on Twitter, and a [...]

M.I.A has dropped a new track in response to Lynn Hirschberg’s controversial New York Times article that questions the pop star’s political effectiveness. Hirschberg was dismissive of M.I.A.’s intellectual ability to understand the complexity of the situation in Sri Lanka, among other things. Here are some choice excerpts: Unity holds no allure for Maya — [...]

Quick hit via Metafilter: Duncan McNicholl has undertaken a really cool experiment. Tired of the pervasive philanthropy photos that depict the impoverished as incapable—i.e. “the teary-eyed African child, dressed in rags, smothered in flies,”—McNicholl is taking pictures of Malawians as they want to be seen. It’s really heartening to see someone address the systematic difficulties [...]

One week after Virginia Heffernan announced the death of the open web thanks to the rise of app culture, Prism Comics’ Charles “Zan” Christensen took on Apple’s censorship of GLBTQ and Indie comics, which could destroy a struggling subset of the comics industry. If the iPad is the savior of comics thanks to its built [...]