Rachel Bellwoar

4 days ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

Research isn’t just for learning more about famous people and stories. It’s about finding and telling stories that have been forgotten, even in their own time. Nobody was keeping deep tabs on the O’Dwyer family and the many tragedies that befell them in life. Still to this day stories about mental illness get ignored because they can be difficult, uncomfortable, or because for all the strides that have been made, there’s still a lot that could be improved.

1 week ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

In their commentary track film historian Elizabeth Purchell and filmmaker Zach Clark bring up that one of the films Motorpsycho was paired with at drive-in theaters was Kitten with a Whip. If you’re familiar with both movies this makes complete sense, but also points to the hypocrisy of Hollywood. While Kitten with a Whip has certainly been looked down on before (however wrongly so), it’s still a Hollywood movie starring Ann-Margaret. Motorpsycho gets no such respect.

2 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

It’s hard to believe Free Comic Book Day is almost upon us. Celebrated every year on the first Saturday in May, this year 2000 AD is marking the occasion with another Best of 2000 AD issue.

2 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

As in season one, season two of Recipes for Love and Murder doesn’t overdo it with the murders or try to suggest Karoo is a perilous place to live. One person is killed at the end of the first episode and that’s the main case that gets investigated. More so than murder, however, it’s the “love” part of the title that season 2 seems preoccupied by and not necessarily for the better.

3 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

It’s all fun and games when “juice” means “orange juice,” but that’s not the juice Benu is consuming in writer Guy Adams, and artist Megan Huang‘s new strip, Ghosted. For more on their cyberpunk story (which is being lettered by Simon Bowland), here’s what Adams and Huang had to say:Rachel Bellwoar: “Ghosted” can mean a lot of things — to be ignored; the supernatural. What does “Ghosted” mean to you in the context of this strip?