This is the grave of Joe Simon. Born in 1913 in Rochester, New York, Hymie Simon grew up in a Jewish immigrant family, though not from where most Jews were from at that time. His dad had come over from England, joining his brother. They...
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His Dark Materials, Season 1, "Betrayal," Bad Wolf Productions, HBO Stephanie Burt has an interesting piece in The New Yorker about the multiverses, fiction, and popular culture. If Borges were.
This is the grave of Hal Foster. Born in 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Foster became an artist as a child. His family had moved to Winnipeg in 1906. He.
Marmaduke creator Brad Anderson has died and it's worth taking this opportunity to remember what a pile of hot, steaming garbage not only Marmaduke but the entirety of the newspaper comics has been for decades. On the "funny" pages, it's amazingly still basically 1958, with...
Thanks to Bruce Vail for sending me this hilarious propaganda comic General Electric put out in 1947 during the debate over the Taft-Hartley Act. He asked me to credit the.
This is outstanding: That time Wonder Woman's stereotypical neighbor dropped the hint that she had moved into a gay male boarding house pic.twitter.com/rNs7u0Vrjd— GayProf (@GayProf) July 15, 2015 I also.
The latest in Ethan Persoff's fantastic series of social issue related comic books is out, this time a piece of propaganda from the Canadian nuclear power industry. I don't know that it's as awesome as the comic celebrating George Wallace as a segregationist hero, but...
By now, you know how I feel about Mark Millar; but until I read Nemesis, I couldn't have accounted for why my dislike has always been so visceral. Turns out,.
Would it be the latest Obama Nation comic by James Hudnall and Batton Lash: (more…)
Considering that two Jews from the Bronx, Bill Finger and Robert Kahn (Bob Kane) created Batman two Jews in Cleveland, Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster, created Superman a Jew from Washington Heights, Mortimer Weisinger, created Green Arrow and co-created Aquaman another Jew from Washington Heights,...
The final assignment of my visual rhetoric course is called Rhetoric in Practice (or RIP). It has two components. To paraphrase the rubric: the students create their own rhetorical performance,.
Cincinnati is not normally the kind of city that deals well with weirdness:Via DCist.