epub |eng | 2010-04-25 | Author:Gabilliet, Jean-Paul; Beaty, Bart; Nguyen, Nick

Television’s Victory In 1950, the sudden emergence of television sets among American households constituted a new variable in the evaluation of cultural practices. The Dayton study accounted for this novelty ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-04 | Author:Bill Schelly

Here I was, after all my years of writing letters and publishing fanzines yet knowing only a handful of comics fans in person, finally stepping into the pulsing heart of ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Mark Brake

THE AVENGER AUTO-CANNON JETPACK An auto-cannon might do the trick. General Electric had been making a Gatling-type auto-cannon since 1977. It was known as the GAU-8 Avenger, and was used ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Dan Hassler-Forest

Superhero figures occupy a similarly dualistic position towards this fundamental boredom that defines our perception of life in the metropolis. On the one hand, characters such as Spider-Man and Superman ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:William Schoell

Part II * * * The Silver Age, 1956–1969 * * * Nine * * * Marvel, DC and Charlton * * * MARVEL Journey Into Mystery Stripped of extreme ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Conversations

IG: It looks like you’re enjoying yourself making this. CW: I guess so. It’s not going to mean anything to anybody. It was just that when my grandmother moved, that ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Rabinowitz, Paula

CHAPTER 8 Sci-Unfi: Bombs, Ovens, Delinquents, and More Pulps were essentially products of the Second World War. Allen Lane had launched Penguin in 1935 and then, in 1939, Ian Ballantine ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-04 | Author:Frank Bramlett, Roy T Cook & Aaron Meskin [Frank Bramlett, Roy T Cook & Meskin, Aaron]

Against Definition Among philosophers, the project of defining art and its various subcategories such as comics is a controversial one. Influenced by Wittgenstein’s discussion of games, Morris Weitz famously argued ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Todd A. Comer;Joseph Michael Sommers [Sommers, Todd A. Comer;Joseph Michael]

Alan Moore and Marked Asexuality Moore's comic work, well-identified as a veritable cabinet of curious sexualities, provides a multipolar view of wantonness and its discontents. From his exploration of healthy ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Chris Murray

Fig. 31: Gadgetman and Gimmick Kid, by Nevio Zeccara, in Lion (IPC, 1966). Perhaps the most popular and memorable Fleetway/IPC adventure character of the 1960s was The Spider, who appeared ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-03 | Author:Arthur C Clarke

31 Disneyville A fin-de-siecle philosopher had once remarked - and been roundly denounced for his pains - that Walter Elias Disney had contributed more to genuine human happiness than all ...

epub | | 1999-07-15 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke [Clarke, Arthur C.]

2010: Odissey Two 31 2010: Odissey Two Disneyville A fin-de-siecle philosopher had once remarked - and been roundly denounced for his pains - that Walter Elias Disney had contributed more ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-29 | Author:Mark Evanier

TALES OF SUSPENSE no. 39 March 1963 Art: Jack Kirby and Don Heck Marvel Comics SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS no. 1 May 1963 Art: Jack Kirby and Dick ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-04 | Author:Owen Holland [Holland, Owen]

The connection between a signifier, such as “dog”, and its signified will differ in different languages: French speakers use a different signifier (chien) and Spanish speakers yet another (perro). The ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Jonathan Bowden [Bowden, Jonathan]

Counter-Currents/North American New Right September 16, 2011 PART 3 In our synopsis and analysis, we left Conan and Hadrathus discussing how to regain the initiative by seizing the Heart of ...