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Introduction to a Crash Course
August 31, 2011 It was the 1980’s in Britain, the proverbial midday of the Thatcher-Reagan era, when comic author Alan Moore extended the logic of the right wing’s rhetoric to envision a Britain of the...
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Django Unchained Issue #1
Tarantino is known by fans and foes alike for essentially making good bad movies. Personally, I find some of them great, and some of them horrible. Django as a film, for me, ranks probably in the top...
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Black History: A Comic Book Reading List
For the last 10 days of February, I put out a list of Top 10 Comics relating to Black History. I didn’t consider this a quintessential list; moreso, I wanted it to be a startting point for anyone...
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Review of “MARCH: Book One”
Title: MARCH: Book One Creators: John Lewis, Andrew Aykin, and Nate Powell Published: August 2013 by Top Shelf Press March: Book One is the first part in a trilogy graphic memoir detailing the life and...
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The Delicate Art of Getting It: Comics as a Tool for Unpacking Privilege
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The...
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Evidence As Antidote – “Race to Incarcerate” Fights Prisons with Facts
If all great truths begin as blasphemies, as George Bernard Shaw put it, we in Canada find ourselves living in a theocracy. Certainly even Adam and Eve would wonder at the spectacular efforts to...
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To Hell, and Black: The Harlem Hellfighters’ race to the Rhine
A historian, the old joke goes, is someone who chases after you calling out “that’s not how it happened!” Good history sees the devil in the details. It looks past the obvious events to understand the...
View ArticleFrom ‘It’s All Over’ to ‘Your Black Friend’: the anarcho-comix of Ben Passmore
In 2017, Ben Passmore made the headlines for his work, a 16-page comic called “Your Black Friend,” nominated for an Eisner Award. That's kind of like being nominated for an Academy Award in the comics...
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