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Whether we like it or not, entertainment has become the continuing education for most of America’s adult population. I’m sure I’m not the only one who learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre from the ...

And so, my friends, I ask you on this fine day in February: what was the first comic book you read this year? Because I’ve read a few. Started off with 1998’s What If...? #98, a staggeringly beautiful ...

Publicity photo of Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne. Photo by Doug Bayne. Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy ...

In the early summer of 1974, a Legion of Super-Heroes fan named Harry Broertjes, the editor of a homemade magazine called the Legion Outpost, made a phone call from New York to Pittsburgh to speak to ...

I have three copies of Tintin in America. These are: The 2018 softcover color edition from Egmont (bought as a part of the massive Tintin Box Set, which contains all books bar Tintin in the Congo), ...

The first time I can remember encountering Matsumoto Taiyō’s work was probably when he released his short story collection, Blue Spring (Aoi haru - Matsumoto Taiyō tanpenshū [stories published from ...

In 1972 Justin Green sent me several copies of Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary and asked me to spread them around. He said he’d put nearly a year into this project but still wasn’t confident ...

I've written about this before, but not in detail. From 1988 to 1993, the monolithic Hong Kong comics publishing entity Jademan (Holdings) Limited, which once claimed to control 80% of its domestic ...

In May 2025, first-time author Tessa Hulls was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her stunning autobiography Feeding Ghosts, making her the only graphic novelist other than Art Spiegelman to ever win the ...

Zap Comix didn’t kick off the underground press scene of the sixties, but it serves as a model of what was at stake in the shift from the button-down, nuclear-family '50s to the radicalism and drug ...