Comics

‘The Boys’ take on corporate superheroes for hire in comic TV adaptation

September 9, 2020 By Floyd Kermode

The Boys is rip-roaring action fun, but also a very dark comedic look at U.S. corporate capitalism and mass-media politics.

‘Redbone’: Native American rock band shines in new graphic novel

September 4, 2020 By Anthony Mangos

Redbone, a band consisting of four Native American musicians, officially formed in 1969, but their journey began many years earlier. 'Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band' is a new graphic novel that...

HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Who will guard the guards?

January 7, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Watchmen is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure.

‘Joker’ exposes the broken class system that creates its own monsters

October 4, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

“Kill the rich– a new movement?” - Joker

Winnipeg General Strike pops off the page in new comic history

September 16, 2019 By Kimball Cariou

This is a timely contribution to public understanding of the event which did so much to shape the working-class struggles of the 20th century, told in a way that reflects and amplifies the left politics which...