Among comic books aficionados his name is still synonymous with prudery and repression. Several years ago I was perusing the goods at a comics store in Southern California, when I came across reprints ...
Tom Taylor, writer of the new gay Superman storyline at DC, is quoted as having said “The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt like a missed opportunity.” Right. If ...
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Any comic book nerd will tell you that Dr. Frederic Wertham’s book The Seduction of the Innocent pushed the American comic book industry into its dark ages in the 1950s. Wertham’s research ...
From left: Charles Kochman, Editorial Director, Abrams ComicArts; Dr. Carol Tilley, Associate Professor, GSLIS, University of Illinois; and Charles Brownstein, Executive Director, CBLDF Like many ...
Any comic book fan that takes the medium seriously as an art form, that researches the medium’s role in American history and pop culture, is aware of the name Dr. Frederic Wertham. In 1954, Wertham ...
Dr. Wertham's subject is murder. It seems that more people are killed each year by other people than by tuberculosis. Taking murder purely as a fatal disease, Dr. Wertham examines the role of ...
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