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Lev Gleason: Crime Comics’ Communist Czar

Hank Kennedy, July 29, 2022

Hank Kennedy recounts the life and work of U.S. left-wing comics publisher Levrett Stone Gleason. Read Article.

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The Comics vs. the Communists: The Left During the Comic Book Scare

Hank Kennedy, September 6, 2022

Hank Kennedy presents and assesses the many reactions to comic books by different strata of the socialist Left during the Comic Book Scare of the 1950s. Read Article.

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From Champion of the Oppressed to Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Who Took the Socialism Out of Superman?

Hank Kennedy, January 13, 2023

Hank Kennedy traces the ideological history of Superman, arguing that the populism of the character's early iterations would eventually be shed as a result of commercial interests. Read by: Keir Read Article.

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Peacenik?: A Socialist Perspective on the Libicki/VanCAF Controversy

Hank Kennedy, July 31, 2024

Hank Kennedy covers the recent ban (and subsequent retraction of said ban) of American-Israeli graphic novelist, Miriam Libicki, from the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, using the controversy as a springboard for analyzing the contradictions implicit in the liberal Zionist politics of Libicki's work. Read Article.