Category: science fiction

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Confronting the Ways We Dehumanize Individuals in EC Comic’s 1953 Story “Counter Clockwise”

Writing about the pivotal comic “Judgment Day!”, which debuted in EC Comics’ Weird Fantasy #18, Daniel Yezbick points out that while EC’s works “trafficked in largely repetitive, openly grotesque, and often sexist power fantasies,” they also “became one of the few voices in any medium with the chutzpah to present openly subversive morality plays that regularly questioned concepts of liberty, equality, faith, and justice.” Through this … Read More Confronting the Ways We Dehumanize Individuals in EC Comic’s 1953 Story “Counter Clockwise”

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Contaminated Blood in EC Comics’ “The Green Thing!”

I have always enjoyed reading EC Comics from the 1950s because William Gaines and the crew didn’t shy away from broaching topics such as antisemitism, racism, sexism, and more. Even in stories that seemingly, on the surface, seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with these issues, they expose these issues, specifically the social constructions of race. They do this in horror stories such … Read More Contaminated Blood in EC Comics’ “The Green Thing!”

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Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” and Jim Crow

In my Literature and Composition Graphic Memoirs class, I taught Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” along with the graphic adaptation written by Otto Binder and Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando. Today, I want to talk about the story, and in the next post, I want to look at the some of the elements of the adaptation along with Feldstein and Orlando’s … Read More Eando Binder’s “The Teacher from Mars” and Jim Crow