When your mom told me she was pregnant with you, I was petrified. Even though we wanted to have a baby, I wasn’t truly ready. But, is anyone truly ready? I kept thinking about how I might mess up and cause you harm, either by dropping you on the ground (which did happen) or by hindering you from reaching your full potential. As you’ve … Read More Letter to My Daughter
Last fall, I picked up Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Waiting, a graphic novel, loosely based on Gendry-Kim’s mother, as sisters, separated from one another during the Korean War, reunite during one of the family reunions between North and South Korea. Gendry-Kim’s writing and illustrations powerfully depict the emotions of the sisters, and her use of the graphic medium, through black and white illustrations, conveys the pain and suffering of … Read More Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s “Grass” and The Power of Comics
For a number of reasons, I have never been a huge Superman fan. When I was younger, and into speculation, I bought Superman #75, “The Death of Superman,” in hopes that it would increase in value. Today, I no longer have that issue, and I have no clue what I did with it. Even though I’ve never really been a Superman fan, I had to include … Read More The Foundations of Superman in Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel’s “The Reign of the Superman”
During the performance of their song “Holiday” at a recent concert in Washington D.C., Green Day’s lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong asked the stage crew to turn out the lights. He stood on stage, with a flashlight pointed out towards the audience, as they held up their cell phone lights, illuminating the entire stadium, and asked, “Do you want democracy?” The crowd responded with a … Read More “This Machine Kills Fascists” An Antifascist Playlist
Kaare Andrews run on Iron Fist deeply engages with issues of whiteness, capitalism, loss, revenge, and more. These are all extrmemly important themes that, at some point, I want to write about in relation to the series. Today, though, I want to continue the discussion I started in my previous post about the ways that Andrews’ Iron Fist engages us as readers, making us active collaboraters in the … Read More Page Layouts in Kaare Andrews Iron Fist Series
Interminable Rambling 