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July 27, 2015
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz Isn't Wrong to Call Watchmen's Rorschach a Hero
July 16, 2015
Jeet Heer
Stop Making Superhero Movies Just for Grown-Ups
'Batman v Superman' and 'Suicide Squad' are everything that's wrong with the genre today
July 13, 2015
Paul Buhle, Noah Van Sciver
An Illustrated History of the American Frontier's Peace-Loving, Apple-Growing, Mystical Hero
The travels and travails of Johnny Appleseed
July 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
Drawn + Quarterly Comics Enters a New Era
May 14, 2015
Eli Valley
Sheldon Adelson Turns Israel Into 'The Walking Dead'
Behold, the "only zombie democracy in the Middle East"!
May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary
May 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
May 6, 2015
Jeet Heer
How Did Everybody Suddenly Become an Expert on French Visual Satire?
March 23, 2015
Eli Valley
What Netanyahu Will Say About Arabs 9,738 Days From Now
March 17, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Wonder Woman Used to Be Radically Kinky. Now She's Just Another Generic Superhero. What Happened?
February 26, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Hollywood Needs a Black Superhero Fit for the Ferguson Era
January 16, 2015
Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke
When Blasphemy Goes Viral
The 'Charlie Hebdo' massacre marks the dawn of a digital age of irreverence and retaliation
January 14, 2015
Eli Valley
A Cartoonist's Dilemma After the 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre
July 20, 2014
David Hajdu
Why Are There So Many Orphans in the Comics?
Roz Chast's take on child/parent relationships and aging
November 20, 2013
Jed Perl
Art Spiegelman Is Comics' Most Pretentious Faux-Artist
October 28, 2013
Diane Mehta
Comic Sutra
An animated porn star is changing Indian views on female sexual liberation
August 7, 2013
Abraham Riesman
'You're Done Banging Superheroes, Baby'
How the sickest mind in comic books became their biggest star
April 18, 2013
Glen Weldon
A Superman for All Seasons
The Man of Steel is 75. His biography is our history.
March 18, 2013
Glen Weldon
Maurice Sendak's Blistering, Bizarre Final Interview
How Disgressions into Murder, Terror and Alec Baldwin Explain "Where the Wild Things Are"
February 7, 2013
Glen Weldon
The Man Behind Spider-Man?
Stan Lee is a legend. But not for the reasons you think.

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