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- Mar 10, 2016
- 5 min
Did Artist Neal Adams Make an Ass Out of Wonder Woman—and Himself?
Advance word is that Wonder Woman steals the show in Batman v Superman. And next year she stars in her own feature flick. The Amazon is also doing well on Amazon, with critically praised feminist studies by Jill Lapore and Noah Berlatsky. So it’s no wonder that her original, comic book incarnation has getting extra scrutiny. Just a few days ago, a Daily Dot opinion piece criticized a variant cover for the latest Wonder Woman under the headline, “Don’t Exploit Wonder Woman on
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- Feb 23, 2016
- 3 min
Hitler’s Annotated Struggle
[Note: Apologies for the suspension of Daily Heller email delivery. If you missed any of last week’s posts please go here for the complete archive.] This is the first in a series of stories on the 2,000-page, two-volume annotated critical edition of Mein Kampf that went on sale on January 9. After three years of work by scholars at Munich’s Institute for Contemporary History, it is a tour de force of analysis and critique. It sold out immediately. I asked Prof. Dr. René Spitz
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- Oct 26, 2015
- 8 min
Voodoo, Guns & Whiskey at the AIGA National Conference
Everyone on stage at the AIGA National Conference started swigging and sharing Southern Comfort, and the two thousand designers in the audience went wild with joyous laughter. First were the five young contestants. The bottle was then handed to host Sean Adams, and then to the judges: Gail Anderson, Aaron Draplin, Robynne Raye, and Marc English in the guest seat, who took the longest, heartiest guzzle. After all, it was celebration time back in New Orleans. And it was part of
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