Comic Culture Archives

Defending Fox News Coverage of Captain America? Really?

October 21, 2015

Over at Adventures in Poor Taste Russ Dobler attempts to break down and debunk some of the claims Clayton Morris makes on a recent Fox & Friends segment. While Russ is able to manage some of the claims Morris m...

Does Batman Confront Police Racism?

John F. Trent

September 30, 2015

Comic Culture

The Guardian is out in force promoting Batman #44 as somehow confronting police racism. However, is this truly the case? I hope by the end of this article this question is answered, but along the way I also int...

Positive Discrimination in Comics: A Disservice to its Cause

Jonathan Ngo

September 23, 2015

Comic Culture

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It has been recently reported by Bleeding Cool that a push towards "Positive Reinforcement" has been made at DC Comics in order to bring more female and ethnic creators into their creative pool. But while Bleed...

Graphic Policy and Loser City Cry Wolf Over Nathan Edmondson

John F. Trent

September 12, 2015

Comic Culture

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It was only a matter of time before the next big witch hunt began from the intellectual descendants of Salem’s Puritans. This time the outcry is over Nathan Edmondson being tapped to take on writing duties for ...

Is Batman a Bad Guy?

John F. Trent

August 27, 2015

Comic Culture

I’m not sure what it is about people trying to turn Batman into a villain or the actual real villains he is out to stop into some kind of heroes. First we had Jef Rouner believing the Joker is the hero of The D...

Wonder Woman Lunchbox Banned from School

John F. Trent

August 26, 2015

Comic Culture

The intellectual descendants of book burners and witch hunters are at it again. This time they are going after a young girl named Laura and her Wonder Woman lunchbox. According to a letter produced by reddit u...

If You Don’t Want To Read ‘Fun Home,’ You Don’t Have To

John F. Trent

August 26, 2015

Comic Culture

The A.V. Club’s Sam Barsanti really doesn’t like Duke University’s incoming freshmen who are opposed to reading Fun Home a graphic novel with nudity and sexual themes. He makes sure to belittle them when he sta...

Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing

The Creators’ Word: Five Essential Books For All Writers

Michael Moreci

August 24, 2015

The Creators' Word

This article first appeared on Michael Moreci's Tumblr and was republished with his permission. I don’t remember where I heard this great Somerset Maugham quote, but it has stuck around inside my head for ye...

‘Diversity’ in Comics Has Led Us to This

John F. Trent

August 19, 2015

Comic Culture

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This is a sad day for comics and those who hope to one day create them. The mantra of forced diversity has led one would-be comic creator to ask permission on whether or not he should write his story. You read ...

Superman Vs. The Police

Charles Cox

August 5, 2015

Comic Culture

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Superman is the quintessential super hero. As a paragon of heroic virtues he has always represented the best of humanity, its greatest potential. Of course, he isn’t a human at all. Which is why he can represen...