Today's Hours:
“Comics” is not a medium, nor a mode of expression
Academic quibbling over semantics (what could BE more academic?) from Neil Cohn's Visual Language Lab
Comics and Trauma: A Postmortem and a New Inquiry
Author Christopher Pizzino argues that the way comics creators do the work of witnessing is deeply attuned to problems of cultural status, which continue to affect the medium’s destiny.
The Impact of Comic Books on Pop Culture
"This blog will delve into the rich history of comic books and explore their lasting impact on popular culture."
Examining the Cold War in the 1980s with Comic Books
"In this article, we discuss how to use two comic books, Batman: Ten Nights of the Beast, and Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire, to teach about the Cold War in the 1980s."
AMOOZIN' BUT CONFOOZIN': COMIC STRIPS AS A VOICE OF DISSENT IN THE 1950S
"Discusses the cultural significance of American comic strips in the 1950s, focusing on the ways in which they served as a medium for the expression of views which dissented from the mainstream culture during the Cold War. Examples are cited from the comic strips "Pogo" by Walt Kelly and "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp."
Thinking Outside the Panel: Rewriting Rebekah in R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
"By their nature and format, comic books are uncontrollable vehicles of cultural expression, and in the case of biblical comic books, religious expression. As such, they can offer retellings of biblical narratives which challenge established practices of biblical interpretation normally rooted in patriarchal and conservative ideologies and may open the text up to more creative interpretations which are not restrained by those traditional approaches of reading the Bible."
"Discusses how the negative attitude of the authorities towards comics gradually changed, leading in the 1970s to the use of this medium both as propaganda and a didactic tool as well as an equivalent of Western popular culture, anchored in the policy of economic stabilisation in Edward Gierek's era."
