No one would have believed...
I've long thought that the opening paragraph of War of the Worlds is one of the best in any novel in the English language. So it was with no small amount of pleasure that I heard Morgan Freeman...
View ArticleCA-44
I've heard a lot about Francine Busby's run in California's 50th district but that's not where I live. I attend UC Riverside and that puts me in the 44th, home to Ken Calvert, Republican incumbent....
View ArticleACLU: the Comic Book
In its increasing effort to reach out to young people, the ACLU has teamed with some excellent talent and some very high-profile individuals to create a comic book about the need to preserve our civil...
View ArticleAmericana: Part I
I'm a Ph.D. student at the University of California and one of the things I study is comic book superheroes. At the meeting of the Popular Culture Association earlier this year in Boston scholar Matt...
View ArticleAmericana II: The Secret Origin
In my diary yesterday I kicked off the Americana project, a superhero comic with liberal and progressive values. I started with the essay that first inspired me to begin the project: a few paragraphs...
View ArticleAmericana III: Super Powers
In the first segment of Americana, I resolved to make a superhero who embodies liberal, progressive values. In the second, we learned more about this character: she is a woman from a dystopian...
View ArticleAmericana: The Pitch
The Americana project is an attempt to create a consciously liberal, progressive superhero, in an effort to demonstrate liberal values in a popular culture arena and, at the same time, tell some fun...
View ArticleUpset in CA-44?
I'm from California's 44th district, the home of Ken Calvert. For those of you who may not remember, Calvert was one of the top 20 most corrupt members of Congress for three years in a row. He's been...
View ArticleAmericana: A Liberal Super Hero
A few years back, during Obama's candidacy, I floated the idea of creating a self-consciously liberal super hero. I teach superhero comics for a living, and my dissertation and subsequent work drew me...
View Article"Drinking the Sand"
In May of 2013 I was invited to speak at the Rocky Mountain Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, which is an academic conference attached to the Denver Comicon. This is where the Aurora "Dark...
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