Articles from Forbidden Planet fun stuff

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The extraordinary life of the woman who created one of fiction’s most enduring characters: Frankenstein’s monster.

Born at the turn of the 19th century to the famous philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft (forerunner of the feminist movement) and William Godwin (novelist and radical politician), Mary Shelley lived a life in constant flight from social conformity. Her struggle birthed a pop culture phenomenon.

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Jaime Hernandez is one of the most humane, graceful, and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture.

Locas tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race, and gender issues. Maggie’s story begins in the early-1980s Southern California rock scene, when it was shifting from the excesses of the 1970s to the gritty basics of punk and new wave.

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This month, from Antarctic Press!

For all you fans of Seoul music, we’ve got a special offer of BTS: Blank Tinted Sketchbook!

Just add pencil and ink to turn these pages black-pink (and you can add other colours too, if you’re PSYched up for it). Or if you like, you can commission a performance from your Topp Dogg creators!

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Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike–and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of annihilation.