Peacenik?: A Socialist Perspective on the Libicki/VanCAF Controversy
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 …
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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 traces the ideological history of Superman, arguing that the populism of the character’s early iterations would eventually be shed as a result of …
The Comics vs. the Communists: The Left During the Comic Book Scare
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 …
Lev Gleason: Crime Comics’ Communist Czar
Hank Kennedy recounts the life and work of U.S. left-wing comics publisher Levrett Stone Gleason. Crime Does Not Pay no. 42, 1945. When people think …