Browsing: Comic

This month, I interviewed Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Learning at Georgia State University. He is the producer, director and writer of White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books—a groundbreaking documentary exploring early black superheroes. He received his PhD. in Applied Anthropology from the…

Can a graphic novel help us understand the dark decade of the 1940s? In Spain, Carlos Gimenez’s “Paracuellos,” as early as the 1970s, brought to light the silenced experiences of the postwar Francoist era. More recently, Jose Pablo Garcia has adapted the works of historian Paul Preston on the Spanish Civil War and Franco into…