By Terry Harpold Lateral windows If we are to speak of “illustrations” of Jules Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires [Extraordinary Voyages], we must begin at the thresholds of his fiction,…
By Jim Casey and Stefan Hall Kabuki, a multi-volume series of comic books by David Mack, tells the story of Ukiko, an operative within a secret…
By Esther Saxey During 1992, nine adult comics were investigated by the Directorate of Publications in South Africa, leading to a national sales ban on four…
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By Christopher Norlund Introduction As an elementary school aged child of the 1980s, I used to rush home every weekday from school to catch the most…
By Lyndsay Brown Y: The Last Man, a planned sixty issue series from DC’s Vertigo imprint by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, presents a unique…
By Michael Mayne Lamb, Chris. Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons. New York: Columbia UP, 2004. Perhaps maps fascinate us because…
By Ione Damasco Inness, Sherrie A. Ed. Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. The recent emergence of the…
By James Fleming Oropeza, B.J. The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture. Foreword by Stan Lee. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. Owed, perhaps, to…
By Tof Eklund Beaty, Bart. Fredric Wertham And The Critique Of Mass Culture. Oxford: University Press of Missippi, 2005. For some time now, the smart money has…