Is Dreadpunk a new subculture?
Image copyright Admirion. Used with permission. There are a couple of articles doing the rounds at the moment covering Dreadpunk. It was announced at DragonCon 2015 by Derek Tatum as a way to describe...
View ArticleAnswers to the Cut-Woman’s return in Penny Dreadful series 3
Fashion and Style have listed a few reasons to justify the return of Patti LuPone in the third series of Penny Dreadful. Normally I would simply shrug such news off as creative licence, but the trendy...
View ArticleWin! A Constance Bashford 2016 calendar
As part of a drive to gain social media followers, I secured a copy of the Constance Bashford 2016 calendar recently. I intend to give it away to a lucky reader of Steampunk Journal. All you have to do...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed: Syndicate gets Jack the Ripper add on
Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate London, UK – Ubisoft® have announced the Jack The Ripper add-on content and details about the Assassin’s Creed® Syndicate Season Pass. The Jack The Ripper campaign takes...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed: Syndicate Jack the Ripper DLC trailer
View image | How Inspector Abberline should always look. Image from gettyimages.com You may have already seen that Jack the Ripper is being introduced to Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate as a DLC...
View ArticleJenna Coleman leaves cosplay for Victoriana
View image | gettyimages.com Ever since steampunk and Dr Who existed together, the T.A.R.D.I.S and Sonic Screwdrivers have been given steampunk redesigns or worked into corsets and accessories. There...
View ArticleSteampunk will never die…. Or will it?
View image | How IBM may have looked while predicting steampunk’s popularity. gettyimages.com A recent article in Burbank Leader told of how a company called Clockwork Couture based in Burbank,...
View ArticleArtist spotlight – Evan Butterfield
Excerpt from “Gentlemen of Steampunk II” by Evan Butterfield Perhaps no single individual did more to establish the character of what we think of when we hear the phrase, “Imperial Age of Steam” than...
View ArticleDynamite announce The Precinct #1
September 14, 2015, Mt. Laurel, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment is proud to announce the upcoming December release of The Precinct #1, the first chapter in an all-new steampunk science fiction comic book...
View ArticleThe Sea Is Ours – Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia
MARYLAND – Small publisher Rosarium Publishing will release The SEA Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia this Autumn. Edited by Singaporean novelist Joyce Chng and Malaysian writer and critic...
View ArticleSTARLING Watches ready to ship
STARLING Collectable Steampunk Vintage Jewelry Pocket Watches Now Available. They are the Perfect Limited Edition Victorian Cosplay Accessory with Chillovean Lights. (PRNewsFoto/STARLING Watches)...
View ArticleArtist Spotlight – Evan Butterfield
Sir Derevish Montbollard displays a prototype of his patented Personal Mobile Telegraphonic Device (P.M.T.D.), a wrist-mounted, self-powered telegraph destined to revolutionize human communications by...
View ArticleIs Feminism reversing women’s rights?
View image | gettyimages.com I’ve seen one or two articles about Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman recently. For some reason, they’re an object of interest for one or two newspapers due to the Victorian...
View ArticleClip of Sherlock Special is released
Getting all giddy and hysterical isn’t the sort of thing a gentleman will normally indulge in, however I’ve just watched the clip for the Sherlock Christmas special and to quote the time travelling Dr...
View ArticleCreep premieres in Dallas
Your skin makes me cry. Alysssa Gardner, Calvin Scott Roberts (front), Janelle Lutz, Seth Womack, and Linda Leonard star in WaterTower Theatre‘s Creep. Photo by Kelsey Leigh Ervi. The history of...
View ArticleBartitsu demonstration at Leeds Steampunk Weekend [VIDEO]
Image courtesy of Bita Mills Photography While at Leeds Steampunk Weekend I partook in the Bartitsu demonstration. I’m a lover, not a fighter, but I found this a very easy and enjoyable experience....
View ArticleCoffee Jousting
Photograph courtesy of Bita Mills Hailing from the north of England as I do, I’m somewhat empathic when it comes to the working class person, being one myself. Therefore I was interested to learn about...
View ArticleArtist Spotlight – Evan Butterfield
Excerpt from “Gentlemen of Steampunk II” by Evan Butterfield Master Aengineer Tobey Fenloque is one of the most little-known of the early Steam Age pioneers, although his work was amongst the most...
View ArticlePutting the “pun” into Steampunk
We’re a hilarious lot and The Lancashire Evening News added to the cause by managing to create yet another steampunk based, rib tickling punny headline. The article written on 7th October highlights...
View ArticleTom Slatter Black Water EP review
After reading up a lot on the background of Tom Slatter, I’ve come to appreciate his music more than I did at first. Listening to the Blackwater E.P. was something entirely new to me. Slatter describes...
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