On June 16, DC Comics announced that writer Gretchen Felker-Martin, an author of horror fiction including 2022’s Manhunt and one of the mor...
Friday, September 12, 2025
And The Sky Is Gray — This Week’s Links
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September 12, 2025
Summer is definitely over, as we see a return of the classic Extremely Busy News Week , so run, don’t walk, to your nearest internet cafe, i...
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Dr. Werthless
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September 11, 2025
Harold Schechter and Eric Powell’s graphic biography of Dr. Fredric Wertham — the great bogeyman of comic book history — is sympathetically ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Smoke Signal #44
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September 10, 2025
In 2025, when most Americans seem to get their news from TikTok, newsprint may carry a whiff of nostalgia. Smoke Signal publisher/editor Ga...
Reading without words: Akira Toriyama’s visual manga and its cross-cultural impact
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September 10, 2025
When I, a Japanese reader, look at English translations of Japanese comics — manga — I find myself often skipping the words. Instead, I sta...