comics

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• 7/19/2020
  

  The Hate-Mongers: Characterizing Racism in Comics

  by Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin

  The Hate-Monger, a supervillain introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, called attention to the destructive power of bigotry, but today readers should resist the idea that defeating any one person, no matter who or how powerful they might be, can eliminate racism. 

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• SOURCE: Inverse
  5/13/2020
  

  Superman Crushed The KKK In 1946. Here's Why He's Doing It Again In 2020.

  Contemporary comic book writer Gene Luen Yang draws inspiration from vintage anti-Klan comics.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  DC Comics and the American Dilemma of Race

  by Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin

  Superhero popular culture has always been embedded within American racial attitudes, reflecting and even contributing to them in ways that reveal goodwill is not sufficient, in and of itself, to fix our problems.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/13/20
  

  America’s postwar fling with romance comics

  by Michael C. Weisenburg

  Grounded in artistic and narrative realism, romance comics were remarkably different from their superhero and sci-fi peers. While the post-war popularity of romance comics only lasted a few years, these love stories ended up actually having a strong influence on other genres.

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• SOURCE: The Verge
  5/4/19
  

  Read a comic about the history of biological warfare from the author of World War Z

  Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History was commissioned by the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11-3-2013
  

  Joe Sacco's Panorama of World War I

  Comic artist Joe Sacco annotates the Great War in a panorama view comic book.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10-3-2013
  

  When Anarchy Ruled the Funny Pages

  A new, large-format book captures the dawn of comics, when the medium had no rules and its messages were surprisingly irreverent.

• SOURCE: University of Illinois
  2-11-13
  

  '50s anti-comic crusade fudged his data

  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Behavioral problems among teenagers and preteens can be blamed on the violence, sex and gore portrayed in the media marketed to them – that was the topic of televised public hearings held by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 to address the scourge of comic books. The hearings, which resulted in the decimation of what was an enormous comic book industry, had been inspired in large part by the book “Seduction of the Innocent,” by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, based on his own case studies.