When Marvel’s Fantastic Four Battled Hate
By 1963, Marvel’s Fantastic Four battled some of the publisher’s most fearsome villains. By year’s end, they faced a threat with chilling parallels to today’s political landscape.
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The US Military’s Secret War on Comic Books
During wartime past, even war-themed comic books designed to help the US military’s reputation were the victims of friendly fire. Ominously, that has changed.
‘The Immortal Hulk’ Finds Bruce Banner Coping with Internal and External Horrors
Marvel Comics writer Al Ewing dives into Bruce Banner’s disturbed mind and finds Devil Hulk.
Alex Graham’s Covid-Era Comic ‘Dog Biscuits’ Has a Lot of Bark
Alex Graham’s Covid-Comic Dog Biscuits intersects with social justice issues, “woke” culture, social media, gender dynamics, ambivalence, and the complications of making mistakes.
Neil Gaiman’s Faustian Bargain with William Shakespeare
What kind of relationship do Gaiman and Shakespeare have? Is one a parasite on the other?
Tommy Siegel’s Comic ‘I Hope This Helps’ Pokes at Social Media Addiction
Jukebox the Ghost's Tommy Siegel discusses his "500 Comics in 500 Days" project, which is now a new book, I Hope This Helps.
It’s Funny, Reading the “Funnies” in a Newspaper in 2020
Wouldn't it be funny if Beetle Bailey spent his time describing his Harry Potter fanfiction to Sarge, or if Blondie's Dagwood spoke like an alienated Beckett character about godlessness and ennui while he assembled an overstuffed sandwich?
‘Horizontal Collaboration’ Tackles Sexist Judgements on Women’s Lives in War-Time
Horizontal Collaboration, the superb French comic by Navie and Carole Maurel, reassesses the sexist biases of history.
AOC Comic ‘New Party, Who Dis?’ Makes Clear the Politics of the Superhero Genre
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comic New Party, Who Dis? - with its ninjas, spaceships, dancing, explosions, FDR, wrestling, and orange hair - names and satirizes the oppressive dog whistles that undermine marginalized peoples in America and in American politics.