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December 12, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
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Pop Art Vs. Comics: Who’s On Top?

Comics vs. art; feminine vs. masculine, or vice versa.

Private Dick in the Hole

Raymond Chandler vs Johnny Ryan: who is the most manly?

The Origin of Catwoman’s Ass

NSFW: Imitations, origins, Courbet, and Catwoman.

July 13, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
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Of Wires and Weeds

The men of The Wire; the women of Weeds.

Getting Over the Hump: Sexing the Sublime.

The sublime, the beautiful, landscape, gender, and comics.

April 9, 2011
By Anja Flower
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Uses for Yaoi

Rather than encoding her art with the usual binary-gendered language code of line and colors, she sculpted every body out of the same luminous, plastic stuff.

March 19, 2011
By Anja Flower
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For my temporary stay here at the Hooded Utilitarian, I’ll be doing a series of pieces on the intersection of comics and related media with queer genders and sexualities, including how these issues have touched on my own life. I thought I’d begin with the gender politics of the Ghost in the Shell franchise.