RSS feed for Jesse Berberich
@JesseBerberich
ON COMICS CHARACTERS
ON SCI-FI FRANCHISES
ON GRANT MORRISON
ON TV AND MOVIES
OTHER BOOKS
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Jesse Berberich
Jesse Berberich is a playwright and media critic born and raised in New York City. He is the curator of Disreputable Cinema, a monthly series at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY that presents cult classics and hidden gems of every genre. His criticism and other writings have appeared in the print publications G-Fan Magazine, Drive-In Asylum, and Revisions: a Journal on Writing at Queens College. He received his MFA degree from Queens College, with his thesis play, Monster Kids, having been recently performed at the famous INTAR Theatre.
MAGAZINE CONTENT BY JESSE BERBERICH
Hell is Other People: Superheroes, Outsiders, and Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, Part 2
Previously, I explored the themes of Chris Ware’s landmark graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth — specifically the role and function of the superhero in this piece and even beyond in Ware’s… [more]
Hell is Other People: Superheroes, Outsiders, and Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan
Chris Ware’s seminal graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth is a masterwork wherein Ware chronicles the struggles of main character, Jimmy, as he navigates through life, eventually meeting his estranged father for… [more]
Strange Sentiments: Stranger Things and Nostalgia
“Stranger Things Season Three, and the Limits of Nostalgia” – the Week “In Stranger Things’ Third Season, the Nostalgia Well Runs Dry” – Slate “Stranger Things Doesn’t Know How to Grow Up” – Vanity Fair… [more]