Comics

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...

Thought police: Growing censorship of comics threatens education

July 19, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

The old saying goes that reading is fundamental, but there are forces are at work that seek to limit the kind of reading materials allowed in the classroom.

‘Aquaman’: The life aquatic with Hawaiian Polynesian Power superhero Jason Momoa

January 3, 2019 By Ed Rampell

If noisy action, violence, CGI and other eye-popping special effects in a superhero movie is your thing, then you will love the mind-boggling Aquaman.