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American Gods

Legendary comic-book Artists Alex Ross and Neal Adams declare their Patriot Acts.

Originally published: November 18, 2003

The Golden Age, the COVID Years, and Everything in Between at New York Comic Con

The City That Never Sleeps is the perfect locale to celebrate an industrial dream factory

October 8, 2021

Freddie Mercury Gets the Superhero Treatment

The book paints moving biographical details with honesty and emotion and an eye for effective detail

by Shana Nys Dambrot

June 29, 2021

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Still Krazy After All These Years

“No less than Charlie Chaplin, its only pop rival for the affection of Jazz Age aesthetes, Krazy Kat synthesized a particular mixture of sweetness and slapstick, playful fantasy and emotional brutality.”

Originally published: June 3, 1986

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Denny O’Neil: Writing Seminal Comics in the East Village

When a comics master reviewed a comic "book" in the Voice

Originally published: October 8, 2020

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The Man Behind the Monsters

“James Warren, founder and publisher of ‘Famous Monsters,’ developed an overactive imagination because his parents left him alone all day.”

Originally published: November 7, 1974

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The Spirit Strikes Back

Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such diverse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer

Originally published: April 21, 1975

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A Year in the Life of Robert Maxwell

A Story of Labor, Lies, Losses, and Libel Suits

by James Ledbetter & S.B. Whitehead

July 2, 2020

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Spider-Man: Super-Anti-Hero In Forest Hills

“The most popular Marvel hero has a terrible identity problem, a marked inferiority complex, and a fear of women. He is anti-social, castration-ridden, racked with Oedipal guilt, and accident-prone”

by Sally Kempton

Originally published: April 1, 1965

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To Be Young, Superpowered & Black

Interdimensional Identity Politics and Market Share: The Crisis of the Negro Superhero

by Gary Dauphin

Originally published: May 17, 1994