Busty Heroines & the Culture War: Going to War With the War on Boobs
If you’ve read comics, played video games, love sci-fi & fantasy, or just simply have been paying attention, you may have noticed the Rainbow…
Tag: Fredric Wertham
Author Says Comics Showed “America Was Racist, Violent & Soaked in Sex”
The Nation reviewed Paul S. Hirsch’s history book, “Pulp Empire: the Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism”, which I’d spoken about in the past year, and…
Comic Book Continuity, Timelines, and Verisimilitude
Read PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5 | PART 6 NOTE: While I didn’t mention it at the…
Don’t Discuss Censorship in Early Comics Without Mentioning Present Day Censorship
The Daily Breeze of southern California brought up the history of censorship in the 1950s following Fredric Wertham’s slapdash attack on comicdom, in another article…
Regarding the Sudden Political Correctness of Larry Hama
Larry Hama was interviewed by Looper, shortly after the Snake Eyes movie whose critical and financial failure isn’t even mentioned here, and he has some stuff…
Self-Appointed Comic Historian’s Stunning Ignorance & Bigotry
Tim Hanley is a Canadian comics historian of a most left-wing leaning who’s written books about Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, and other such comic women,…
Current Captain Marvel Writers Insult Carol Danvers’ Famous Older Costumes
Leave it to the awful Screen Rant to lend their support to disparaging a very decent costume design from a better era by the late Dave…
A Brief History of Mexico’s Explicit Horror Comics & What’s Changed
The Tor sci-fi news site covers some history of Mexico’s comic industry, which isn’t what it used to be by today’s standards, and the horror-thriller…
Why Would Red Sonja Comic Critics Complain About Her Sexiness?
I found some more examples of sex-negativity in reviews of comics starring or co-starring Red Sonja similar to these. For example, this Comic Crusaders review of Red…
OK, Boomer: Alan Moore Embarrasses Himself Over Comics, Again
I don’t know if Alan Moore’s truly left comicdom, as he’s said he intends to, but a 2017 interview turned up on a blog dedicated to…