Category Archives: Politics
Miniseries Meanderings: Punk Rock Jesus and Spaceman
Over the last few weeks I have been writing on a variety of comic-book miniseries that have recently wrapped up. Now I want to comment on a couple of miniseries that ended a little while back, but ones that I’ve … Continue reading
Racially Entitling Bloomberg Businessweek
The cover illustration of the most recent issue of Bloomsberg Businessweek: Did anyone at the magazine pause to consider the inadvertent (?) ethnoracial implications of this illustration for a cover story on housing and financing? Did anyone notice that, of the … Continue reading
Classroom Comic Quandaries
Is there a good comics-related textbook out there? I guess it all depends on what you want to teach and what your approach to comic studies is. Yesterday I began reading Jeffrey Kahan and Stanley Stewart’s Caped Crusaders 101: Composition through … Continue reading
Histories of the High and Low
This past week I finished Matthew J. Costello’s Secret Identity Crisis. As I had discussed in my previous blog entry, this is an insightful look at Cold War politics from the 1960s and into the post-9/11 years and the way that … Continue reading
Of Fanboys and Ruskies
I am a history buff, and I enjoy reading about American political and cultural history, including pop cultural history. More specifically, I enjoy reading about comics history and its political resonances. Lately I’ve read, or have been in the process … Continue reading