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+ comics, dc comics, deadshot, democracy, democratic socialism, EC Comics, january 6, nightshade, rick flag, suicide squad

Self-Interest and The Common Good in “Suicide Squad” #4

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Over the course of this blog, I’ve written, extensively, about the ways that comics address political and social issues. The “preachies” in EC Comics are perhaps the most obvious examples of this. Today, I want to look at May 1987’s Suicide Squad #4 written by John Ostrander and drawn by Luke McDonnell. “William Hell’s Overture” is a self-contained story early Ostrander’s Suicide Squad run, … Read More Self-Interest and The Common Good in “Suicide Squad” #4

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+ arab in america, comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, toufic el rassi

The Unproportionable Distribution of Shame: Part II

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Last post, I looked at the feeling of shame that incarcerated Japanese and Japanese Americans felt after the end of World War II. Today, I want to expand that conversation some by looking at the ways that Toufic El Rassi discusses the ways that feelings of unwarranted shame weighed down on him in Arab in America. In each text, it is not the oppressor … Read More The Unproportionable Distribution of Shame: Part II

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+ comics, george takei, graphic memoir, harmony becker, japanese american internment, justin eisinger, they called us enemy

Emotions in the Gutter: Part II

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Last post, I started discussing the separation of illustrations into multiple panels in works such as March and They Called Us Enemy. Today, I want to continue that discussion by looking at some more examples in Takei’s graphic memoir and the ways that Harmony Becker separates larger images into multiple panels to highlight multiple thematic aspects of the narrative, notably the generational trauma that … Read More Emotions in the Gutter: Part II

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+ andrew aydin, comics, george takei, harmony becker, john lewis, justin eisinger, march, nate powell, they called us enemy

The Emotions in the Gutter

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Recently, a colleague asked me to participate in a reading with him. He read selection from his latest poetry collection, and during the Q&A following our readings, he spoke about the ways that he constructed some of the poems he read. During his response, he began to speak about a poem he didn’t read, “Nocturne,” a poem which deals with death, intimacy, and loss. … Read More The Emotions in the Gutter

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+ Al Feldstein, comics, Comics Code Authority, EC Comics, race, the guilty!, Wallace Wood

Reflections in Al Feldstein and Wallace Wood’s “The Guilty!”

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It’s been a few years since I’ve read Al Feldstien and Wallace Wood’s “The Guilty!” in EC Comics’ Shock SuspenStories #3 from 1952. I reread the story in preparation for an upcoming class, and as I reread it, I thought, again, about the positioning of the reader throughout “The Guilty!” Today, I want to look at this story again, expanding some on what I … Read More Reflections in Al Feldstein and Wallace Wood’s “The Guilty!”

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