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- Aug 17, 2018
- 3 min
The New York Times vs. Batman… and All Other Comics
The New York Times got it wrong about the highly hyped Batman #50 with its description of the caped crusader’s nuptials to Catwoman. Hordes of fanboys went batshit crazy, seriously shocked and outraged that the surprise dénouement to a storyline that they’d been following for 49 issues was revealed three full days before the comic book’s official release. The writer, George Gene Gustines, later apologized, admitting that “We should have given more thought…” about whether to i
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- Feb 6, 2018
- 3 min
Ferris’ “Favorite Thing…” is Everyone’s Favorite Graphic Novel
If there was a designer “best of the best ofs” list for comics, My Favorite Thing is Monsters would easily be 2017’s winner. As it is, Emil Ferris’s breakthrough, groundbreaking graphic novel—set in a hardscrabble late-1960s Chicago and in the rich interior life of a ten-year-old girl—seems to have appeared on practically every comics-centric books-of-the-year list. And publications from The New York Times to The Guardian and from Forbes to Mother Jones have joined the chorus
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- Nov 30, 2016
- 2 min
It’s Time to Resist!
When Gabe Fowler, editor and publisher of the comic tabloid Smoke Signal, devised the idea of handing out a free special issue by the tens of thousands from the back of a van during the Women’s March in Washington D.C. this January, he immediately realized, “I would prefer that this issue have a strong and powerful roar of female voices without meddling by men,” notes the press release for RESIST! New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly was called upon for her contacts and expe
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