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Popeye the Crossdressing Man
Nisby the Newsboy, May 20 1906. My earlier post on historical representations of gays in the comics garnered many interesting comments and responses. I wanted to take an opportunity to point out a few...
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Spiegelman and Mouly on Kids Comics
Nobody talks about comics with more intelligence than Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, so it is always a happy day when they sit down for an extensive interview as they recently did for Michael...
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Blackface As a Prism For Seeing the World
George Luks's Queen Liliokalani cartoon from Verdict, January 16, 1899 Blackface, as we’ve touched on before in this blog, was a pervasive part of American popular culture in the late 19th and early...
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Hip Hop’s Debt to Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney: The Father of Hip Hop? Off and on I’ve been reading National Review for three decades now, which comes as a surprise to friends since I don’t share any of the magazine’s politics. But...
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Conrad Black as Tubby Tompkins
Tubby: a boy with a rich imagination. Over at the Inkstuds radio program I spent a very enriching hour talking with Gail Singer and Frank Young about the work of John Stanley, the journeyman cartoonist...
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Room without a view
It won. This narrow, simplistic, disappointing little film won the Oscar. No, I’m not shocked. Nor am I disappointed with the Academy — though it has been on an admirably strong run in this century...
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Cyrus Habib: Hic Rhodes, Hic Saltus
Below is a fascinating interview of Cyrus Habib by Chesa Boudin; I am reprinting it from The Rhodes Project. I am proud to count Cyrus as a friend, and I have also had the pleasure of meeting Chesa on...
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The Political Circus, 1921 and 2011
Art Young, "The Political Circus" from 1921 Art Young (1866-1943) was arguably the greatest radical cartoonist America has ever produced and also one of the very few political cartoonists whose work...
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A Curious Profession: Jewish Impersonator
Salt Lake Tribune May 05, 1913 While researching something else I came across this curious article from the Salt Lake Tribune of May 05, 1913. This article praising Harry Cooper as as “Jewish...
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Captain America Through the Decades
Jack Kirby's cover for Captain America #1 Over at the Globe and Mail last week I published an article about the evolution of Captain America. A few errors crept into the article, so I’ve tidied it up....
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