Jason Grote on a panel from MACHINE MAN (1978)

A brutality so extreme as to border on black comedy.

“So! They laugh at my boner, will they?”

“Right now I’d wash my face with the sourest milk in the world!”

Calling All Boys!

“I must wear a different-colored Batman costume each night!”

“So hurry up already!”

No Swimming!

“I bet this frisbee flips out Veronica on her birthday!”

“Did you have any trouble rescuing me?”

“Let’s hit the cobbles — and rap!”

“Why are you standing while eating, Lois?”

“Batman’s doing his best to sound gay, but…”

“Robin — what have I done to you?”

Frederick Wertham wasn’t wrong…

No one personified the knotty relationship between comedy and brutality quite like…

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Writing in 1949, Philip Rahv divided American literature into volatile, rebellious “redskins”…

In his error, performance art was born.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1899-1980) was schooled in the genre conventions of the English…

As a kid, my upbringing pulled me in divergent directions: on my…

The biography of ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-88) firmly places Golden-Age SF on…

My heart still skips a beat when I look at old Rolling…

Much has been written (and rightly so) about white appropriation of black…