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The Hottest Comic Book In America Is Not What You Think
The new Spider Man and Fantastic 4 movies will hit the screen this summer. These movies will also feature Venom and the Silver Surfer respectively, characters who have huge followings among comic enthusiasts. And, even though these movies have already lifted the sales of Spider Man and Fantastic 4...

"Black Skins" and White Masks: Comic books and the secret of race
The stereotypes through which American popular culture often interprets and represents racial identity operate not only as tools of defamation but also as vehicles for far more subtle manipulations of race. In his 1946 essay "Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity," Ralph Ellis on...

BROTHERS FIGHT DIABETES WITH COMIC BOOKS
Kamaal Washington did a funny thing three years ago when he was diagnosed with diabetes at age 9. Sure, the son of a comic-book artist went through a time of feeling sorry for himself and being scared and confused by the disease. Then he did something about it. Kamaal, now 12, and his younger...

Holy Comeback! - comic books - Brief Article
Comic books are enjoying a resurgence in popularity as fans trade online.Does anyone still care about comic books in the 21st century? The answer appears to be a resounding yes. Just look at all the recent movies spawned from assorted superheroes and evildoers. Visit the Websites devoted to the...

Comic books used as a hook
Karl Ancell has been waiting all week for Free Comic Book Day. He's not after the freebies. The comic book store manager is hoping the promotion will help hook new readers -- and customers.Comics will be distributed today at nearly 2,000 shops nationwide as part of a five-year-old campaign to...

Ker-Splat! - social influence of comic books
COMIC BOOKS MADE ME A SNOB. AS A child, I was riveted by Spider-Man and went on to become meticulous about my comics' condition and completing series numbers. Now they lie entombed in acid-free boxes and Mylar bags in my house, waiting for divestment.Occasionally, I even buy one for old...

Tales from the crypt - comic books and censorship - The Skeptical Eye
In the early 1950s, a respected psychiatrist and well-meaning reformer named Fredric Wertham published a book entitled Seduction of the Innocent and nearly destroyed an indigenous American art form. Wertham alleged that comic books were a major cause of juvenile delinquency, violent crime, social...

Not Just Condensation: How Comic Books Interpret Shakespeare
Today comic books bridge what once seemed to the educational world a chasm between low and high culture. Like stage and screen productions, comic book versions of Shakespeare can be appreciated on different levels by different audiences: by schoolchildren who use them as cribs, by older students...

Comic book classics recharge film industry - Toys - planning licensing deals of old comics - Brief Article
Comic books have been a constant in American culture since the debut of "Superman" in the late '30s. Now, more than 60 years later, the entertainment industry has turned to superheroes born out of the pages comics, launching several characters onto the silver screen and building them into...

Comic relief: what began in 1938 as an unassuming 13-page book about a hero named Superman has evolved into a mix of art and literature - Culture - Brief Article
Seated at a restaurant table, Nate Baxter arranges stacks of brightly colored comic books by nationality: India, Hungary, France, Thailand, Germany, Malaysia, Japan and Croatia. A passing waitress comes to a quick stop, her widening eyes scanning the colorful spreads: One cover features Mindy, a...

Comic Books
Comic books are an essential representation of twentieth-century American popular culture. They have entertained readers since the time of the Great Depression, indulging their audience in imaginary worlds born of childhood fantasies. Their function within American culture has been therapeutic,...

Zowie! Belleville woman zapped into comic book world
This story might be too strange even for Superman's Bizarro world: Until she met her future husband a few years back, Belleville's Stacie Ritchie Jordan cared little about comic books. Never bought them, seldom read them and certainly never tried to write one. And, until just a few months...

Novelists shifting work to comic books
NEW YORK -- Author Jonathan Lethem was a big fan of the comic "Omega the Unknown" when he was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, and he was pretty depressed when the superhero vanished from corner store shelves.Never fear. He'll see Omega in print again soon, because Marvel Entertainment is reviving...

Exhibit explores racial images in comic books
 JACKSON, Miss. -- Comic books have become hot again thanks to the successes of NBC's "Heroes," the Spider-Man films and the revived Superman and Batman franchises.A new exhibit at Jackson State University offers a glimpse into the world of the comics, a much different one than the Gotham...

Scholar finds Jewish history in comic books
SAN LEANDRO -- Like many other youngsters in the 1950s, Harry Manhoff pored over comic books and grew to regard Superman as his hero.As the New Jersey kid grew up and attended Yale University and Hebrew Union College, the comic books got tucked away with Manhoff's New York Yankees sports...

Darwin as comic book super-hero
The Sandwalk Adventures. By Jay Hosler. Active Synapse, Columbus, Ohio, 2003. ISBN 0-9677255-1-8. 160 pp. Softcover, $20.Jay Hosler begins his graphic novel The Sandwalk Adventures with a parody of a creation myth. Like all parodies, this one extracts the essence of the thing being parodied--just...

Christian comic books
Holy super-heroes?Yes, a new breed of Christian comic-book characters is beginning to make inroads into the industry.Comic books today have generally become more violent, sexy and godless than ever. One exception is a group of newcomers to the industry -- Christian-based comic books.You won't...

Comic books make wham-bang gifts; From Superman to the Perhapanauts,
What's better than words for the person on your gift list who likes to read fiction?Easy: words and pictures.Take us up on our suggestions for a graphic novel or comic book from this year's collection and you, too, could be a superhero (these books can be found at area comic book...

Gazette includes Spider-Man comic books
Spider-Man, who has appeared in two blockbuster movies, live- action and animated TV shows and 40-plus years of comic books, is spinning his web in a new home: The Gazette.Beginning today, readers will find a special collectors' edition Spider-Man comic book in the Sunday Gazette. Today's...

ONLY THE FINEST
In 1941, the United States was still more than a year away from entering World War II, but the rest of the world was already in the grips of the conflict. It was evident that even in this country, the need for heroes was great. So it was that National Periodical Publications (DC Comics) introduced...

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