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A forgotten culture war by J. Caleb Mozzocco
The Ten-Cent Plague chronicles the comic-book persecution of the 1950s

An artist would have been hard-pressed to find a less respectable way to make a living with their skills than the comic-book industry at its inception—it was a few steps up from sign-painting and pornography, but it was work at a time when that was hard to find. Naturally the field filled up with ta... >more

Jack Chick would not approve
A very different sort of comics tract about the Rapture

When a huge swath of the world’s population suddenly rises bodily into the sky, disappearing into the heavens, it’s popularly assumed that the Rapture has occurred, and that those Christians who believed in it were right all along. Writer Jim Munroe and artist Salgood Sam’s new grap... >more

Breasts, penises and Japanese love hotels by J. Caleb Mozzocco
A domestic comedy tempered with sex instruction

Reading manga generally requires some form of suspension of disbelief, and the cleverly titled Manga Sutra Vol. 1 (Tokyopop) is no exception: Here you have to imagine that it’s possible for two 25-year-old virgins to meet, marry and make it to their wedding-night bed withou... >more

Eat your heart out, Oliver Stone by J. Caleb Mozzocco
JFK’s last adventure: a team-up with the Teen Titans in outer space

The title of Teen Titans Lost Annual No. 1 (DC Comics) implies that the publishers recently found an unpublished gem from decades past in a drawer somewhere. In actuality, they simply finally found the will to publish something they themselves stuck in a drawer a few years ... >more

Graphic history by J. Caleb Mozzocco
The 1960s is made visual by the masters

How do you tell an official history of a group as decentralized, multifaceted and mercurial as the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960s activist organization that fought against the Vietnam War and for social justice? Particularly now in the 21st century, a good 40 years after the group’s he... >more

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