By Sarah Briest “Mutants in the Marvel Universe have always stood as a metaphor for the underclass, the outsiders; they represent the ultimate minority” (n. pag.),…
By Adnan Mahmutovic and Denise Nunes The relationship between human beings and nature starts with insects and ends with insects. —Hugh Raffles, Insectopedia Hayao Miyazaki’s manga Nausicaä of…
By Aaron Ricker The Promethea comic book series (1999-2005) was a minor hit for Alan Moore, compared to his Watchmen (1986-1987), V for Vendetta (1982-1985), or From Hell (1989-1996), all of which were…
By Christopher Pizzino The comic book has come of age; at least, so says the story that has proliferated in mainstream culture over the past…
By Charles Acheson Writing about Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Leigh Gilmore reiterates a central tenet of her book, The Limits of Autobiography. Gilmore…
By Donna Axel and Roberta Spivak “The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely … one small village…
Janis Breckenridge and Jenna Stanley Antonio Altarriba and Kim’s (Joaquim Aubert Puigarnau) collaboratively composed graphic short story “La casa del sol naciente,” which serves as…
By Sarah Harris1 Memory Boom. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Spanish Civil War and subsequent repressive totalitarian dictatorship, and more than two…
By Birte Wege1 World War I. Somewhere safe in the idyllic French countryside, far removed from the new and terrible military practices of trenches, tanks,…
By Leila Estes Aldous, Steve. The World of Shaft. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015. “Who is the man that would risk his neck…