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Tag Archives: Comics
1959: Capital and Labor
Sister Concilla sets the record straight on labor unions. Note the union bug indicating the comic was printed in a union shop.
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1954: Zombies, Unite!
For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Comics, Death, Strikes, Unions, Zombies
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1941: FDR and Captain America’s Shield
Captain America recieving his trademark circular shield from FDR in June, 1941. From Captain America #255 (March, 1981) (Roger Stern, writer; John Byrne, artist). The shield’s history developed slowly. Originally, in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), Cap carried … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 1980's, Comics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Byrne, Roger Stern, USA, WWII
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1952: The Grim Thoughts which Harass Me
Baffling Mysteries No. 7 (March 1952); art by Lou Cameron, found here.
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1946: Fight That Man!
The Challenger—a tough-talking comic book hero from the 1940’s who fights fascism at home: “The man who wants to smash the unions or attack racial or religious minorities is a fascist! Never forget that, and never forget to fight that … Continue reading
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1989: Inferno Joe
Robert Sikoryak’s version of Dante’s Inferno as a series of “Bazooka Joe” comics (1989). Sikoryak has also done a version of The Scarlet Letter as a series of “Little Lulu” strips, a “Peanuts” version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Crime and Punishment … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, Comic Strips, Comics, Dante, Poetry, R. Sikoryak, Translation, USA
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2010: Johannesburg
Zanele Muholi: Mbala Zulu, KwaThema, Springs, Johannesburg, 2010
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1973: Literature
Nick Cardy: From Beyond the Unknown Vol. 1 #23 (August, 1973)
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Animals, Apes, Art, Books, Comics, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Libraries, Mammals, Nick Cardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, USA
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1966: A World of Limitless Dimensions
Jack Kirby: collage from Fantastic Four Vol. 1, #51 (June, 1966) Original art:
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1945: The Book of Alfred Kantor
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom HaShoah Alfred Kantor was 22 when he was sent to Theresienstadt, the ”model ghetto” 40 miles north of Prague that the Nazis had created for Czech Jews. He was then sent to Auschwitz and, later, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 1990's, 20th Century, Alfred Kantor, Art Spiegleman, Comics, Czechoslovakia, Drawing, Fathers, Holocaust, Judaism, Prisons, USA, WWII
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