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Oh, My Aching Cranium! Jack Kirby’s OMAC Deconstructed and Reconstructed, Part One

by Ryan C. | in Articles | Sun, 20 July 2014

If there’s one work by the King of Comics that polarizes his legion of fans, it’s his short-lived 1974 DC series OMAC. Appearing to take place in a future universe all its own (as was… [more]

Capital Thoughts: Captain America #22

by Jeffrey Kahan | in Articles | Sun, 20 July 2014

Cap, now a shriveled old man, lies in a bed in the Avengers’ Manson. Banner runs tests on him and reports that there is no trace of the super-soldier serum in his blood. Tony Stark… [more]

Cosplay and Body Shaming

by J. Holder Bennett | in Articles | Sat, 19 July 2014

Cosplay, at its best, is about people having fun dressing up as their favorite movie, anime, game, or other characters and joining like-minded people. But we live in the real world and things involving other… [more]

A Tale of Two Dark Knights…

by Christopher Maurer | in Articles | Fri, 18 July 2014

Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns (or DKR) has long been considered one of the greatest works in comic books. Since its release in 1986, it has been lauded as an industry-changing story that helped… [more]

The Good Duck Artist and the Godfather of Comics

by Tom Speelman | in Articles | Fri, 18 July 2014

In less than a week, I’ll be presenting at the 22nd Annual Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con on something I’ve been studying for three years. In my freshman composition class, we were instructed to vote… [more]

Phonogram, Music, and Silent Comics

by Logan Ludwig | in Articles | Thu, 17 July 2014

Music is important in Phonogram: The Singles Club, the second mini-series of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s Phonogram series. (A third is slated for publishing at some as yet determined point in the future and… [more]

Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Daredevil Volume 1 #336

by Stuart Warren | in Articles | Thu, 17 July 2014

Last Christmas my brother gave me a booster pack of random, non-sequential issues from a variety of popular comic book titles that syndicated in the late eighties to mid nineties. The nineties was a time… [more]

How Carmine Infantino Designed DC’s Silver Age

by Paul Jaissle | in Articles | Thu, 17 July 2014

DC Comics’ Showcase #4, cover dated October 1956, is usually recognized as the book that launched the so-called Silver Age of comics by reintroducing the Flash and effectively reviving the superhero genre. The iconic cover… [more]

Don’t Ignore the Art: Reviewing and Commenting on Comics, Part 3

by Forrest Helvie | in Articles | Wed, 16 July 2014

Comics Journalism with Lucas Siegel (Newsarama Site Editor) and David Pepose (Newsarama Reviews Editor) Because this article is geared in many regards to help encourage readers and reviewers to develop a more critical eye, especially… [more]

Steranko and the Moment of Silence

by Rocko Jerome | in Articles | Wed, 16 July 2014

When the common person on the street conjures an image of what a comic book writer or artist looks like, they most likely picture a quiet, unassuming man, a passive person—the direct opposite to the… [more]

Don’t Ignore the Art: Reviewing and Commenting on Comics, Part 2

by Forrest Helvie | in Articles | Tue, 15 July 2014

Line Work (Pencils / Brushwork) One of the first things I look at when opening up a comic is the style that’s being used. Is it more lifelike (realistic) or cartoonish (iconic)? Scott McCloud discusses… [more]

“The Spirit of Hatred or the Spirit of Love”: The American Superhero Comics of Mark Millar, Part 27

by Colin Smith | in Articles | Tue, 15 July 2014

Continued from last week. Other aspects of Millar’s closing tilt at Swamp Thing were less praiseworthy. Though the final arc appears to show little of the swaggering misogyny that saturated his earliest work for 2000AD,… [more]

Robert Crumb’s Best Art Was Some of His Most Subtle

by Ian Dawe | in Articles | Tue, 15 July 2014

The partnership between Harvey Pekar and Robert Crumb was one of the more curious, and one of the most artistically satisfying in all of comics. Friends for years before even considering making comics together, these… [more]

It’s Pronounced [sin-KEV-ich]

by Greg Carpenter | in Articles | Mon, 14 July 2014

For years I called him Bill “See-EN-key-a-wix.” That is, until somebody told me it was “SINK-a-vich.” Of course that was wrong too, but in a way, that’s as it should be. Most of us don’t… [more]

Don’t Ignore the Art: Reviewing and Commenting on Comics, Part 1

by Forrest Helvie | in Articles | Mon, 14 July 2014

What’s the difference between a comic book and a novel? The answer seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? Yet, it still confounds me to no end that someone will take the time to write a review… [more]

Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Namor the Sub-Mariner Volume 1 #30

by Stuart Warren | in Articles | Thu, 10 July 2014

Bugged Out!: Scarab Reconsidered 20 Years On, Part Sixteen

by Ryan C. | in Articles | Tue, 8 July 2014

Honest, folks, after this, we’re all done here. I know, I know — Scarab the mini-series is done already, but let’s consider this something of a postscript to look at what ended happening with the… [more]

“The Notion that Mankind is Diseased and Must be Replaced at all Costs”: The American Superhero Comics of Mark Millar, Part 26

by Colin Smith | in Articles | Tue, 8 July 2014

Continued from last week. The conflict between Millar’s two opposing teams of Masons appears to represent a clash of empathy and hubris, tolerance and tyranny, good faith and a world-razing secularism. Where one Lodge is… [more]