Art
- Interview: AMC interviews Dyna Moe, the freelance illustrator behind the vintage-y Mad Men illustrations on Flickr.
- Canstruction Vancouver is a spectacular competition and exhibition that showcases local teams who compete to design and build the ultimate giant sculpture out of canned food. This year’s winner was a model of Wall*E.
- Inspire76 lassos up 12 Heroic Images of Wonder Woman.
Comics
- Katee Sackhoff has announced that she’ll be writing her own comic. I get how someone who looks like her draws television audiences, but will good looks translate into readers?
- io9 has posted a gallery of Amazing Comic Covers From The Last Ten Years.
- Super Punch claims that Umbrella Academy Dallas is the best comic of the year.
Film
- Interview: Joel Silver Talks Swamp Thing, Wonder Woman, and Sgt. Rock.
- News: J.J. Abrams is Producing Samurai Jack Movie. How much you wanna bet that it’s going to blow Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender out of the water?
- 1 Year, 342 Movies, 12 Months of hard work, 7 Minutes. The Cinema of 2009 proved that innovation is rewarded. Here’s a look back at it all.
- SciFi Scanner points the way to Five Video Game Fan Flicks That Outshine Their Hollywood Counterparts.
Internet
- Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos of 2009 are a great way to burn a few hours.
Literature
- Interview: Bibliophile Stalker interviews Amal El-Mohtar, co-editor of Goblin Fruit.
- News: Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic Books Online.
- Gizmodo has a First Look at Blio, Ray Kurzweil’s Tablet-Friendly Ebook Format.
- On November 13, Cory Doctorow spoke to a crowd of about a hundred librarians, educators, publishers, authors, and students on “How to Destroy the Book,” as part of the National Reading Summit. TheVarsity has posted a transcript.
- Seth Godin argues that “Amazon and the Kindle have killed the bookstore” in It’s not the rats you need to worry about, but The Globe and Mail argues that The book isn’t dead – yet.
Television
- TVU Networks features a ridiculous number of streaming TV stations for free, from all around the world.
Video Games
- According to TorrentFreak, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been downloaded illegally nearly 4,100,000 times, to become the Most Pirated Game of 2009.
- The trailer for the upcoming Alien vs. Predator is amazing. It kind of makes me wish whoever created it had directed the movie.
Writing
- Right Read provides this helpful Glossary of Book Publishing Terms.
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