Comics history is intermedial, seeing its evolution as a journey of creative cross-pollinations with stage, photographic, musical, film, animation, radio, and long and short form prose narrative arts. Along with this history, there have been notable creator cross-overs and bi-directional cross-flows. From comics to long form narrative fiction we have notables like Stan Lee, Alan…
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Learning to Love the Legion [Bonus]: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #7
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KIRBYOLOGY!: Tom Scioli Tells the Greatest Jack Kirby Story Possible (His Own)
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Health and Inclusivity: Embracing the New in SCHOOL FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL GIRLS
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#MakeComics: Writer and Artist Andi Watson
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Anatomy of a Panel: Alex Sanchez Brings YOU BROUGHT ME THE OCEAN
Health and Inclusivity
Health and Inclusivity: Embracing the New in SCHOOL FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL GIRLS
Adjustment is basically a synonym for adolescence. In Jeremy Whitley, Jamie Noguchi, Shannon Lilly, and Wilson Ramos Jr.’s School for Extraterrestrial Girls, Tara has to make some adjustments that neither she nor we would ever expect. In a matter of moments, Tara finds out she isn’t human, like at all, the people who raised her…
Health and Inclusivity: The Past, Present, and Future of STE(A)M in Gifted’s P.B. SOLDIER
Health and Inclusivity: Coming into Power with Jessi Zabarsky and WITCHLIGHT
Health and Inclusivity: The Hard Road to Peace in FAR SECTOR
Health and Inclusivity: Finding Commonality in Weaver, Lee, and Robles-Valdez’s THE UNCOMMONS
The Comics Classroom
Preserved in Art: THE MASSACRE OF BLACK WALL STREET and Historic Responsibility
I have vacillated on how to handle my inner desire to comment on the death of George Floyd. In many ways, I acknowledge this is a kind of privilege because my voice, in relation to the pain running through Black America, is not one I feel needs to be heard. What people need, and even…
Kirbyology!
KIRBYOLOGY!: Tom Scioli Tells the Greatest Jack Kirby Story Possible (His Own)
From the 1930s to 1990s, Jack Kirby created gob-smacking art and unforgettable characters, but he was mainly a storyteller. “The Pact,” “Madbomb,” the Galactus trilogy, Captain America’s origin, Silver Star, OMAC, and even Thundarr the Barbarian are among the thousands of tales he spun solo or with collaborators. But the greatest Kirby story is the…
Transmyscira
Transmyscira: Exorcising the Ghosts of the 20th Century with IRON MAN: EXTREMIS
Let us not become the evil we deplore. – Rep. Barbara Lee, September 14th, 2001 I couldn’t take it any longer. I grabbed a microphone and said, ‘I’m no fly on the wall. I am the hornet that stings.’ There was an immediate uproar, so not having anything more to say, I shouted out,…
#MakeComics
#MakeComics: Writer and Artist Andi Watson
Comicosity is picking the brains of a pro who is killing it in the comics industry, and for this round I was lucky enough to talk to Andi Watson! Andi is the creator of the upcoming Kerry and the Knight of the Forest (July 2020), The Book Tour (November 2020), Glister, Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula,…
History of Violence
From Earth Angel to the Grave: Burying Peter David’s SUPERGIRL
During this period of upheaval and death due to the COVID-19 pandemic, who among us doesn’t fear for the future? Alongside trying not to get sick, I’m worried about keeping my comic shop open, the health of my parents, and the life of my grandfather (who just suffered a major stroke and has the virus).…
Learning to Love the LEGION
Learning to Love the Legion [Bonus]: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #7
The Legion confronts President Brand and the United Planets Assembly. There’s a challenge to the leadership of the Legion. And Rimbor continues its belligerence. I want to start by saying that I think this might be the first issue of this run that I’ve genuinely loved. Certainly, a lot of things happen; the UP plot…
Palabra e Imagen
The Harsh Experience of Survival with DESERTER
How do we represent pain? How do we visualize mourning? How do we live knowing that all the people we love is gone? How can we continue living if the world around us is consuming? How do we live knowing that we survive while others could not? All these questions are present in the trilogy…