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Young cartoonist Rupert Kinnard poses next to a display of his original comic characters.Courtesy Rupert Kinnard Listen to audio from OPB journalists 00:00  /  27:07

Harry Potter is coming to HBO, the bespectacled British wizard being introduced to a whole new generation fans. Harry Potter-mania swept the world through the late ’90s with the books to the release of the final movie in the series in 2011. Potter fandom is quite controversial nowadays, with many fans of the property swearing…

DC Comics has developed a reputation with readers, one that started decades ago in the 1950s. The publisher created the first superheroes in the late ’30s and ’40s, but things would take a turn and eventually, everyone but Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman would go the way of dodo, as comics were blamed for everything…

Some folks who create art want anyone and everyone to know about it, while others take a different approach and they want to be relatively anonymous.

The Fantastic Four isn’t Marvel’s most popular team, although they once were, but they’re more important to the history of the comic medium than any of the others. They belong right up there with Superman when it comes to importance. They birthed the modern Marvel Universe in 1961, showing readers through the door of the…

Few video games have been as influential as Capcom’s Street Fighter II, which dominated arcades when it launched in 1991, popularized the fighting game genre, and spawned countless sequels, spinoffs, and imitators. When the Street Fighter movie came out three years later in 1994, there were still new versions of the game hitting game consoles.…

The Focus on Sickle Cell Foundation (FoCel)in Ghana has submitted sample educational materials to Ghana’s National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) for review and potential approval for use in basic and secondary schools. And they happen to be in the form of comic books.

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It has been 50 years since Jack Kirby began work on a Marvel Comics series that adapted one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time into comic form. However, what many fans might not remember is that this series also introduced a robot hero who went on to become part of the mainstream Marvel…

American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol created digital works on a Commodore Amiga computer in 1985. The files were saved on Amiga floppy disks and remained in The Andy Warhol Museum’s archives for nearly three decades before researchers recovered them in 2014. In 2021, five of the recovered digital works were offered as unique NFTs…