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Will Eisner's The Spirit was, at its peak, circulated in about 20 newspapers nationwide as the feature in a 16-page insert. It was the newspaper industry's answer to the fledgling comic book industry. The...

March is officially here, which means we're now in the week of Will Eisner's birth. In what has become an annual tradition, this marks the celebration of Will Eisner Week, aimed at "Promoting Comics, Graphic...

In the wake of a Black History Month that has been as bizarre as it has been comically racist, here is a piece that takes a brief look at recent Black representation in superhero comics and its ties to what...

It's Spider-Week! Well, only kind of, with two of the four books I'm eyeing featuring some sort of arachnid motif from the House that Stan (and Jack and Steve others) Built. But if the creepy crawlies aren't...

I’ve never understood why slice-of-life comics rarely find a large audience. Readers can enjoy seeing the same Batman story told for the billionth time, but a narrative about genuine, everyday experiences...

We as comic readers are inundated with a myriad of new books every week. Each title is hoping to be the one to grab our attention and be a regular fixture in our pull list. These are just a few highlights for...

If you read Batman comics in the mid-to-late 1990s and into the 2000s, chances are you read a book written by Chuck Dixon. At one point or another, his name graced the pages of Batman, Detective Comics,...

We as comic readers are inundated with a myriad of new books every week. Each title is hoping to be the one to grab our attention and be a regular fixture in our pull list. These are just a few highlights for...

“Worlds will live, worlds will die and nothing will ever be the same.” When I first read this tagline for DC’s Crisis On Infinite Earths as a kid it sent shivers down my spine. Now re-reading it as an...

The publication of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics has always fascinated me. The story of how Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created pop-culture icons is one of the great tales in comics history. Their...