Upsetting the Prudes: Good Girl Art
It peaked during the 1940s and 1950s when US servicemen were the comics industry's biggest market. It was everywhere. Then the Code arrived and called it "exaggeration of physical qualities." Killjoy
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The Men Who Drew the Future: Artists of Pre-Code Science Fiction
The greatest cover Frank Frazetta ever drew for comics was rejected as too violent. EC Comics bought it anyway.
The Women Comics Forgot
Lily Renée survived the Holocaust, got to New York, and became a Golden Age comics artist. She was written out of history for forty years. She was 97 when comics finally found her again.
The Women Comics Forgot (and found again...)
Lily Renée escaped the Holocaust, got to New York, and became a Golden Age comics artist. She was written out of history for forty years, and was 97 when comics finally found her again.
African Comics: The Scene No-One is Covering
Nigerian comics studios are building shared universes. Cameroonian artists are drawing from African folklore. Ivorian webtoons are finding audiences across three continents. None of this is covered in
African Comics: The Scene No-One's Covering
Aya de Yopougon won the top prize at Angoulême in 2006, was translated into 15 languages, and adapted into an animated film. Most American comics readers have never heard of it.
WHAT GETS LOST WHEN COMICS BECOME FILMS
Supergirls and Spidermen galore...
Episode 15 - What gets Lost When Comics Become Films
Hello and welcome to Episode 14 of the Macroverse Dispatch!
The 300 year old modern comic
Arguably the first great comic strip was painted in 1733. The hero ends up in a lunatic asylum, because of course he does.
The 300 Year Old Comic
This week we’re running the clock back a good long way to look at one of the great, great grandfather’s of modern comics, a series of engravings published in 1735.