By Matthew Jones Introduction The investigation of comic books as a means of prying into the subconscious fantasies and fears of their readers is not a…
By Sean Carney Since embarking on a career as a professional comic book writer in 1979, Alan Moore has produced an enormous body of critically acclaimed…
By Mark Fisher Batman has contributed more than its fair share to the ‘darkness that hangs over contemporary culture like a picturesque pall. ‘Dark’ designates both…
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…
By Renée Tobe Introduction When we say we are “caught up” in a story or that we “get lost” in a novel, it doesn’t mean we…
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 Dina A. Mahmoud Every telling of a story or a testimony is in some way an act of reconstruction. When telling one’s own story,…