“‘Just One More Thing’: Columbo and Class Disruption” at Neotext Corp
“Pixar's Ratatouille, the state of media journalism, and why I'm a critic” at Popverse
“What The Birdcage's Grand Gay Comedy Tells Us about Family 25 Years Later” at Paste Magazine
”Poirot's moustache: I will never forgive Kenneth Branagh for giving it a back story” at Popverse
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Shelfdust
“‘Try Not To Cuss’ — Franklin Richards’ Rules for Reality in FF #23”
“All This Whiteness: The Color White and its Representation of Destruction in Watchmen Issue 11”
“R U NORMAL: On the Attempt to Normalize the Outsider in Vision #1”
“The Brave and the Bold #200: Parallel Universes and Feuds”
The Gutter Review
“‘This and That: The Duality of Gene Luen Yang”
How to Love Comics
“Searching for Riverdale: My Relationship with Archie and Americana”
The A.V. Club
“Alone in Space is a pensive retrospective of Tillie Walden’s early work”
“Scullion explores finding your place in the world and the chaos of mistaken identity”
“Jimmy Olsen faces down family in the excellent conclusion of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen”
“Frankie Comics will bring a smile to any cat lovers face”
“Heartstopper Volume 2 finds joy in the quiet moments of teen romance”
“The mech-centric dystopia of GIGA #1 is the beginning of something exciting”
“Batman Black and White #1 is good but not as good as its namesake”
“Best Comics of 2020”
“Before Jared Leto’s film version arrives, Morbius: Bond Of Blood #1 is a fun callback to classic comics”
“The art of Jonna And The Unpossible Monsters shines, but it needs more story”
“Witchblood #1 is a fun, splashy start to a stylish series”
“Miles Morales: Shock Waves is an enjoyable but weightless read for younger Spider-Man fans”
“The Secret to Superhuman Strength is a big swing from a master cartoonist”
The Middle Spaces
“‘I think they know me too well’ — Growing Against Expectation in Journey Into Mystery: The Manchester Gods”
The Comics Journal
“The Montague Twins: The Devil’s Music Review”
The Comics Herald
“Superman Smashes the Klan and the Complicated Art of Belonging”
Treasury of British Comics
“‘But don’t just take my word’: Power and Surveillance in ‘The Thirteenth Floor’”
The Comics MNT
“‘You’re an Avenger, Right?’ Power and Guilt in ‘Hawkeye vs. Deadpool’”
The Vault of Culture
“The Illusion of Safety in Little Nemo’s Walking Bed”
Women Write About Comics
“Hellos and Hildebrand”
“Levi-Strauss and Loki”
“Who are YOU calling monster?”
“A Helluva Thing: Serialized Death in Black Bolt”
“‘Don’t Get Eaten by a Tiger’: The Presentation and Safety of Othered Children in FF”
Popverse
“Adapting to an industry that's getting worse: Dave Scheidt on the illusion of ‘breaking in’”
“Returning to FF, Jonathan Hickman's forgotten great superhero work, ten years later”
“At the Los Angeles stop of her tour, Kate Beaton shares Ducks through the history of the mines, a slideshow presentation, and music”
Paste
“The Queerness of Harvey, 70 years later”
“The Flawed Symbolism of 12 Angry Men”
“What The Birdcage's Grand Gay Comedy Tells Us about Family 25 Years Later”
“Captain America: The First Avenger Gave the MCU Its First Hero You Could Believe In”
“The Morbid Crisis of an Art Career and tick, tick...BOOM!”
“Exploring the Two Endings of Woman of the Year, 80 Years Later”
Into
“Black Sails Shows the Power of Society’s Monsters”
“How Lil Nas X’s Music Videos Explore Queer Identity”
Film Updates
“Over the Moon lacks the imagination it needs to deliver on an interesting premise”
“The Ongoing Battles of Spotlight and Dark Waters”
Neotext Corp
“Just One More Thing: Columbo and Class Disruption”
The Gutter Review
“Perfect Relationships Don’t Exist: A Chaste Romance in The Bishop’s Wife”
“‘Because He Loved You:’ The Queer Betrayal at The Center of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Fandom
“Moon Knight: How Bad Are Capes, Actually, In a Real-Life Fight?”
“Could the ‘Dune’ Ornithopter Actually Fly in Real Life?”
Chicago Reader
“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”
“The Bad Guys”
Popverse
“No, Taika Waititi will not save us”
“The hokey joys of Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2”
“The Mummy knew what it was - and that’s its charm”
“The Ken Problem”
“No Hollywood? No problem! A vacant hall H leads to a packed (and profitable) show floor for comics & other retailers”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever finds its emotional center in remembering what Wakanda has lost”
”Gran Turismo: Jann Mardenborough on how he learned from his real-life engineer”
“What the Paddington Photoshop meme tells us about the Bear himself”
“Congressman Robert Garcia on the Popular Arts Caucus, SDCC, and Superman”
“Why Andor feels more mature than other Star Wars (and no, it's not body count)”
“Netflix's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a sprawling, sometimes biting, mystery delight”
“Yes, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is as good as people are saying it is”
“Ted Lasso hasn't gotten worse, people just don't understand the show”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse continues to push the boundaries of what American animation can be”
“DC's The Flash movie is slightly muddled summer fun”
“Harrison Ford has the hat & whip (but lost the thrill) in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
Anti-Heroin Chic A Horror Story; Persephone
Anti-Heroin Chic Pandora
Cantos Garlic, Grandma Wants, Alive, Alive, How to bring a lover back from the dead
Cardiff Review The favored remnant of summer
Cardiff Review After one hundred days of filtered air
Cheat River Review Cary Grant
Ekphrastic Review City and I
Ekphrastic Review Home
Ekphrastic Review The Great Executioner
Graviton Lit Molten
the lickety split Six
the lickety split Untitled (Pigeons, sparrows, & blackbirds)
Rust + Moth All Before It
Third Wednesday The Dock at Midnight; Curfew
Third Wednesday Grunion Hunting
West Trestle Review tracking numbers
An Inside Out “Discovering Dandelion Wine”
Sazeracs Smoky Ink “The Art of Writing the Literary Thank You Note”
Into: Finding Myself “On a World Without Sondheim”
Sans. Press “Live Link”
The Belladonna I (A Man) Listened to your Podcast, and You’re Doing it Wrong
The Belladonna Kidney and Assorted Organ Donation, Rated by Clout
The Belladonna HELP! My Wife Lied to Me
Points in Case Letter from a Missing Puzzle Piece
Points in Case I’m a Superhero who Saved the World Twice, and I Still Can’t Get a Bank Loan
Points in Case A Letter of Complaint from Your Unused Stationery
Greener Pastures Magazine Henry David Thoreau Reviews Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Greener Pastures Magazine "Forgot Your Password?” Cartoon
ComicsXF
“Interview: Reburn Returns to Kickstarter for Issues #3 and #4”
The Comics Journal
“‘We Know That’s Not True’: An Interview with Amie Wright”
“‘I Showed Way More Dedication To Comics Than I Ever Did To My School Work’: An Interview with Juni Ba”
“‘I Think I Have A Bit Of An Antagonistic Relationship To Nature’: An Interview with Shing Yin Khor”
“‘It’s All Made Up, And We Want To Talk About That’: Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh on Squire”
The Middle Spaces
“‘These Stories Are Out There’ — Reclaiming Queer and Trans Histories with Melanie Gillman”
Popverse
“Andi Watson on The Book Tour, Kerry and the Knight of the Forest, and comics for kids vs. adults”
“The Contradictions: Sophie Yanow discusses storyboarding, journalism in comics form, and skateboarding”
“Cartoonist Jeffrey Brown chats about republishing his iconic memoirs, Star Wars, and comedy for kids”
“Charles Soule and Ryan Browne chat Eight Billion Genies, how they met, and why desire is narratively interesting”
“Mary Pope Osborne chats Magic Tree House, graphic novels, and literacy”
“Zine librarian Jenna Freedman chats about the Barnard Zine library and why every grrrl's story is important”
“Ronald Wimberly chats Planet Ardbeg, form and function, and whisky cocktails”
“Dave Chisolm's Enter the Blue dives into the world of jazz, performance, creation, and obsession.”
“‘I think that it's wide open!’ Scholastic's David Saylor on the past and future of kids comics”
“Nidhi Chanani combines her love for sharks, the ocean, and her daughter in Shark Party”
Popverse
“From the inside of an Ewok suit—Kevin and Tracey Thompson on Star Wars, fandom, and representation of Little People on screen”
“Gotta catch 'em all!—Tim Allison is on a mission to collect every C2E2 badge”
“Oni-Lion Forge is being sued for obscenity related to Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer. This is their response.”
“Marvel's Baymax! on Disney+ is talking about menstruation—and includes a trans man talking about period products!”
“Akira, Spy X Family, much more (and almost some Marvel comics) pulled from Midwest US library's YA section”
“Our Flag Means Death writer attends Our Flag Means Strike event through felt-portation”
“Inside the Our Flag Means Death strike: An "unreal" day brings together showrunner David Jenkins, cast, writers and fans”
“All About Me” weekly diary comic
“When I have dreams” two page comic published in Honey Literary
“Green Beans” one page comic with Brian Middleton
“There is no safety for kings” four page comic with Facundo Lopez
“Unto Dust You Shall Return” six page comic with Gabor Nameth
LitPub
All the Faces Made of Wax: Review of Edward Carey’s Little
PanelxPanel
Issue 4 "Something Just Broke" on Mister Miracle
Issue 5 "Creative Consumption” on Maxwell’s Demons
Issue 7 "The Balloon Complicates Things" on Secret Weapons
Issue 8 "You Are What You Eat" on Twisted Romance
Issue 10 "Close your eyes, and Isola Rises" on Isola
Issue 11 "Facing the Apocalypse" on Cold War
Issue 12 "There's No Place Like Home" on Harrow County
Issue 14 "A Bug is a Bug is a Bug" on Bug! The Adventures of Forager
Issue 15 “Man and Monster” on Immortal Hulk
Issue 16 “End the Endgame” on Giant Days
Issue 17 “A Familiar Game” on Marvel Knights 20th
Issue 18 “The Big Reveal” on My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
Issue 20 “Reading Between the Lines” on Wyrd
Issue 21 “For the Children Yet to Come” on Little Bird
Issue 22 “Framing the Story” on Eve Stranger
Issue 23 “Thought Bubbles and Thievery” on Criminal
“The Big Reveal” on My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
Issue 24 “Jumping Headfirst into a Longbox“ on The Wicked and The Divine
Issue 25 “Form and Context” on Adrian Tomine’s “A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture”
Issue 26 “Something Old, Something New” on Spider-Man Life Story
Issue 27 “Genre and Repetition” on Pretty Deadly
Issue 28 “Growing Up” on Sentient and Interview with Sergio Aragonés.
Issue 29 “What We Do in the Fractures” on fractured storytelling in November
Issue 31 “Chat, Please!” an interview with Check, Please! creator Ngozi Ukazu
Issue 32 “You’ve got it handled?” on the realities of grief in fantastical horror in Something is Killing the Children
Issue 33 “What if I’m a bad machine?” on dealing with kid’s problems in Judd Winick’s HiLo series
Issue 34 “Mirror Mirror” on the art of the first issue (analyzing Mark Waid)
Issue 35 “Did you do that yourself?” on journaling in Lucy Knisley’s Stepping Stones
Issue 37 Guest editorial on the future of the comics industry
Issue 39 “How to tell if you’re living in a dystopia” on Judge Dredd America
Issue 40 “Editorial,” “Trauma and Shifting Realities,” and “I Think We’re All Monsters: Interview with Emil Ferris”
Issue 42 “Questions and Answers” on Ann Nocenti and David Aja’s Seeds
Issue 43 “A love letter to weird friendships” on Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon
Issue 46 “To dream the unpossible dream” on Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters
Issue 49 ‘The Stories We Tell” on Juni Ba’s DJELIYA
Issue 50 “A Contract is a Contract!” on Will Eisner’s A Contract With God
Issue 51 “The Sound of Silence” on Dead Dog’s Bite
Issue 52 “Growing Pains” on Locke & Key
Issue 53 Editorial & Interview with Sas Milledge
Issue 54 “Brave New World” on Catwoman: Lonely City
Issue 56 “I’ve Heard It in the Chillest Land” on noir
Emily VanDerWerff’s newsletter EPISODES “Bo Burnham greets his audience”
The Journal of Comics and Culture Vol. 5 (Winter 2020) “Comics of the New Europe Review”
Observer: Paige Clark on Relationships, Obsession, and Reality in “She is Haunted”
Dunes Review Issue 23.2 The impossibility of imagining spring
Third Wednesday Vol XIII, No 1 Edinburgh
Third Wednesday Vol XII, No. 4 Roost
Third Wednesday Vol X1 No 4 Crows
LGBTQ comedic monologues that are actually funny
Kids' comedic monologues that are actually funny
Teen Girls' Comedic Monologues that are Actually Funny
Can AI paint electric sheep?: Some thoughts on art generated by artificial intelligence