The Forces Within Marvel's Film 'Doctor Strange'
One of the things that hard to believe about Doctor Strange, the 2016 American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios is that it is...
The Origins of 'Doctor Strange'
Doctor Strange’s very earliest appearance in July 1963 was in the pages of Strange Tales #110. His original run, drawn by his creator,...
The Words of Jack Kirby
Perhaps the most influential and prolific comic book artist of all time, Jack Kirby (1917 – 1994), was also a writer and editor. Kirby...
Lee, Kirby and the Cosmic Imagination
Between the end of the 1950s and 1970, a creative explosion took place in comics. As has been previously discussed, Stan Lee, becoming...
Stan Lee, Cultural Icon
Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber, December 28, 1922, is for many a living cultural icon. Starting out as an American comic-book...
The Darkening of Comics
’Initially, Watchmen gained a lot of its readership because it was taking an unusual look at superheroes, but actually it was more about...
Alan Moore, Visionary
English writer Alan Moore is famous for his influential work in comics, including the graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta, which...
'V for Vendetta': Epic or Irony?
It’s peculiar that V’s mask from Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel V for Vendetta has become an iconic representation of the ‘Anonymous’...
Marvel vs DC Round 3
I’ve said earlier that there was one way for DC to go which might work in terms of out-creating Marvel: go ‘super-grim’, in an effort to...
A History of Comics 3
The decline of comics in Britain paralleled the rise of television. Colour television arrived in Britain in 1969 and its relative...