Book Review: Cartoon County
/In "Cartoon County," Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy recounts his famous cartoonist father's adventures during the heyday of the American pop art industry.
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In "Cartoon County," Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy recounts his famous cartoonist father's adventures during the heyday of the American pop art industry.
Read MoreStephen Crane was born too late to go to war, but The Red Badge of Courage endures, not only as a story about war and what happens to people in war, but also as a remarkable experiment in literary modernism.
Read MoreBack in the halcyon days of the 1990s, writer Fabian Nicieza and artitst Rob Liefeld created "X-Force," perhaps the worst spin-off of Marvel's "X-Men" ever to see print. A new collection invites a trip down memory lane.
Read MoreIn the first story-arc in the newest era of the ultimate comic-book hero, a deadly enemy threatens the young son of Superman
Read MoreHe helped to create some of the staple characters of the comic book world, and yet he's unknown outside the industry. A spirited biography tells the story of Otto Binder.
Read MoreEditor Zach Rabiroff revisits the great masterpiece of the late Darwyn Cooke
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Read MoreFifty years ago, a daring writer and a quirky artist created an offbeat character who became one of the most famous superheroes in the world. A look at the early days of Spider-Man.
Read MoreThe book Fight Club - and even more so the movie adaptation - have cult fixtures in American culture. But after twenty years, is there anything left for a sequel to subvert? Justin Hickey reads Fight Club 2.
Read MoreNow in paperback: a densely-packed graphic novel in which Superman slowly becomes his worst enemy
Read MoreLong, long before Superman appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, human folklore was rife with super-beings. A new book takes a look at the more-than-human.
Read MoreThe life of infamous NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, in comic book form
Read MoreThe venerable concept of the superhero team dates back to 1940, but in 1975 Marvel Comics introduced a new team of X-Men - and an empire was born.
Read MoreSure, we all know Superman, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man - but what about the also-rans? Who played the Captain and Tennille to the Avengers' Sonny and Cher? Zach Rabiroff looks at the heroes who didn't quite make the prime-time cut.
Read MoreIn a world very much like our own, super-powered clandestine operatives vie with each other on missions to save or destroy humanity
Read MoreDC Comics gives writer/artist Darwyn Cooke's masterpiece The New Frontier, a shrewd and powerful re-imagining of DC's iconic superheroes, the glorious hardcover edition it deserves. Justin Hickey re-reads.
Read MoreThe revamped Man of Steel embarks on a new series of adventures in Action Comics
Read MoreThe super-villain glimpsed at the end of the mega-hit "Avengers" movie casts a long shadow in the comic books where he was born - a new Marvel Comics graphic novel fills in some of the blanks
Read MoreMarvel Comics is mopping up at the box office, but what of its rival DC? Our resident expert fisks the also-rans and reminds us about an epic story still waiting to be adapted.
Read MoreIsabel Greenberg's graphic novel is set in the frozen land of Nord, but its lush storytelling influences come from such legendary places as Mount Olympus and Mount Sinai
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