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Time Capsule, Part 2
To celebrate my impending thirtieth, I decided to take a look at the comics being published during the month of my birth, September 1980. Last week, I reviewed a handful of mostly disappointing DC...
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#10: The Fantastic Four, by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, with Joe Sinnott, et al.
On the cover of the third issue of The Fantastic Four, published in early 1962, Marvel proclaimed it “The Greatest Comic Magazine in the World!!” That’s a bold statement, but, as Dizzy Dean once told...
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Marvels of Metafiction
Google “jennifer egan” and seconds later the term “metafiction” will attach itself leech-like to the side of her postmodern head. I know this because members of my university have made the possibly...
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Undisputed Title to a Hill of Dung
The Comics Journal has an extensive piece up by Robert Steibel in which he looks at two pages of original art from Fantastic Four #61 and argues exhaustively, passionately, and convincingly that Jack...
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Is Tong Transgender?
Here at PencilPanelPage we post relatively often about identity and identification (my favorite all-time post along these lines is still Quiana’s early post “Can an EC Comic Make ‘You’ Black?”). In...
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“Yo Soy Yancy Street!” El Thing About Place & Identity
[This has been cross-posted from The Middle Spaces.] I wrote my master’s thesis on Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude exploring the seriality of narratives of place and race in the ongoing...
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