On Second Thought, I Really Don’t Like Wonder Woman, Part 2
Wonder Woman: less feminist than Camille Paglia and Sharon Stone...
Wonder Woman: less feminist than Camille Paglia and Sharon Stone
continue reading »Marston/Peter had a fascist vision.
Alison Bechdel responds briefly to HU critics.
Cigarette warning labels and legislating images.
Concerning the self-analysis of Alison Bechdel.
TCJ and superheroes; why they didn’t mix.
Wonder Woman: less feminist than Camille Paglia and Sharon Stone
continue reading »Alison Bechdel responds briefly to HU critics.
Cigarette warning labels and legislating images.
Concerning the self-analysis of Alison Bechdel.
TCJ and superheroes; why they didn’t mix.
You’d think that Where the Wild Things Are was Sendak’s greatest work. Maybe it is, I don’t know…and I don’t care.
continue reading »There’s a low-key sweet, quiet, melancholic visual music playing in Porcellino’s backgrounds. As he put it, better than I ever could, it’s: “A really simple grace.” A Schulzian ode to suburbia…
From the enormous Comiket in Tokyo to the tiny Yaycon in the Netherlands
“The world is rejecting me.” But at least there are cat reaction shots.
From page to page of 100 Scenes we witness a restless, lively world. It’s like a godless theogony in which trial and error coexist.
A brief look into the longboxes of Erica Friedman’s mind, to pull out the best and worst comics she enjoyed as a child.
Who owns Anne Frank’s words? Why shouldn’t it be Karen Carpenter?
continue reading »The core of the Diana I have come to love in recent years washere, in full and intact.
All right, so everybody and his dog thinks Wonder Woman needs fixing. But why does Wonder Woman “need” fixing?
When the almost 100% male writers Wonder Woman has had get their hands on her, they just can’t wait to re-invent her.
The Avengers is the crack cocaine of superhero movies. It will stimulate the comics fan into a near-fatal geekasm.
Gattaca, Hunger Games, and how to be well-dressed for the coming totalitarian nightmare
Wonder Woman: less feminist than Camille Paglia and Sharon Stone
continue reading »Marston/Peter had a fascist vision.
A Marston/Peter fan comic, featuring space crocodiles
Bondage and empowerment cannot be disentangled in Marston’s imagination.
It’s her virtue that gets me down, just as her good deeds land her in aircrafts that plummet and boats that sink.
Who owns Anne Frank’s words? Why shouldn’t it be Karen Carpenter?
A Marston/Peter fan comic, featuring space crocodiles
An index to the roundtable on the final Marston/Peter Wonder Woman
There’s a low-key sweet, quiet, melancholic visual music playing in Porcellino’s backgrounds. As he put it, better than I ever could, it’s: “A really simple grace.” A Schulzian ode to suburbia…