How Animated Superhero Body Designs Have Changed Through the Decades
As cultural standards for bodies change, so to do the idealized ones we see on TV—and that includes our favorite superhero ...
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Roz Chast on George Booth’s Cartoons
Charles Addams hit me like a meteor when I was around nine years old, and I have a particular affection for the great George ...
Lola Kirke: “All the Women in My Family are Cursed”
In an excerpt from her darkly humorous new memoir, Wild West Village, the actor and musician reveals how she turns burden ...
Comic books library inaugurated in Rajapalayam
Rajapalayam inaugurates first-of-its-kind Comic Library for children, offering hundreds of comic books in English and Tamil.
Lincoln’s secret: Below the memorial, graffiti may show racy screen star
The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...
The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it
The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured ...
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Japan’s manga lures French readers craving something different
On Friday, the largest Japanese pop culture convention outside of Japan kicked off in Marseille. Courthouse News talked to ...
‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review: Graphic Doom
In this straightforward documentary, the acclaimed cartoonist reflects on his Holocaust memoir, “Maus,” and other masterworks of subversion.
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From Research Papers to Comic Panels
What do bicycles, anthropology, and comics have in common? For UVM professor Luis Vivanco, everything. Swapping research papers for hand-drawn comics, he’s bringing history, culture, and even ...
Trolling feels like a new phenomenon. But it existed long before the internet
From Beowulf to Paul Keating, trolling has a long history. Social media, however, and Donald Trump, have taken things next ...