30 April 2012

Things I Bought at the MoCCA Festival

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Brigid Alverson persuaded me to make the one-day trip to Manhattan to attend this year’s MoCCA Festival . So for real money and everything...
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29 April 2012

The Psychoanalysis of Superheroes and Their Fans

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This image, by Norm Breyfogle , adorns Spencer Ackerman’s article in the new Pacific Standard on “Comic Con on the Couch: Analyzing Super...
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28 April 2012

Cold Wind and the Limits of the Superhero Genre

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Cold Wind is a short adventure comic written by Dan Mazur and drawn by Jesse Lonergan , independently published by Mazur’s Ninth Art Pre...
27 April 2012

Why Republicans No Longer Like American Cars

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In 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Charles Erwin Wilson, head of General Motors, to be Secretary of Defense. In his confirma...
26 April 2012

Alan Moore and the Pitfalls of Unforeseen Success

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Folks who blog about superhero comics are apparently supposed to have a moral stand on DC Comics’s decision to commission prequels to Alan...
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25 April 2012

Harry Potter Changes the Rules Again

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Every new Harry Potter book changed the rules of American publishing. The first book signaled the resurgence of fantasy after years of d...
24 April 2012

Max Acts Out

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I may be wrong, but I’m assuming the kid in the metal costume with a pointy nose and an empty chest is dressed as the Tin Woodman . That’s...
23 April 2012

Knock-Offs Come to the Book Business

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Fortune reports on a new trend in digital media—knock-off books: And if you want to buy bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow on Amazon, be...
22 April 2012

A Kid Sidekick in the Comics Business

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As I’ve written before, the quick inclusion of kid sidekicks in early superhero comics at the dawn of 1940 reflected not just the industry’s...
21 April 2012

Another Hellbound II Review

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I’ll shortly start my workshop at the SCBWI New England conference, but I’m logging in to quote my favorite part of Emi Gennis’s review of ...