+ comics, david f walker, denys cowan, Homan Square, Malcolm Jenkins, marvel, marvel comics, nighthawk
We Must Listen, See, and Act: David F. Walker’s “Nighthawk”
Last post, I wrote about the ways that David F. Walker’s Nighthawk lays bare the tendrils of racism that work at various levels to suffocate and oppress people of color in America. Today, I want to expand some on this and look at how Raymond Kane confronts issues of racism and subjugation. I want to explore, briefly, the moral tensions that Kane encounters as … Read More We Must Listen, See, and Act: David F. Walker’s “Nighthawk”
+ Al Feldstein, an art commentary on lynching, charles chesnutt, comics, EC Comics, naacp, Shock SuspenStories, the guilty!, Wallace Wood, william faulkner
Confronting the Reader in Feldstein and Wood’s “The Guilty!”
by Matthew Teutsch
Last Thursday, I wrote about the ways that Al Feldstein and Wallace Wood countered racism in their story “Hate!” which appeared in EC Comics’ Shock SuspenStories #5. Over the next couple of posts, I want to take a look at three more stories by the duo: “Guilty!,” “Under Cover,” and “The Whipping!” I do not have enough space to thoroughly delve into each story; … Read More Confronting the Reader in Feldstein and Wood’s “The Guilty!”