(NB: I wrote this essay more than two weeks after the events herein described took place, to ensure that no one in my pod contracted Covid-19 in pursuit of this story. Thankfully, no one did!) Once upon a time, when Free Comic Book Day was rescheduled to August 2021, I visited my local comics retailer…
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 11: Gustav Meyrink and the Land of the Time-Leeches
Concluding the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 10: The Authenticated Vampire Story of Franz Hartmann
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Nightcrawler is a Sex-Positive Superhero. Here’s How—And Why It Matters
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. If you care about seeing inclusive sexiness in your stories, reading superhero comics can be challenging. And yet, I continue to love them, for reasons that are, ironically, directly related to…
Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri on Movies, Memory, and Moving On
Following his previous one-shot web manga, Look Back, Shounen Jump+, Shueisha’s online platform, recently published Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri. In Goodbye, Eri, a boy named Yuta faces fallout after screening a film about his ailing mother, composed entirely of footage shot of her and his family to the very moments of her death. Yuta becomes…
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 9: George Sylvester Viereck and The House of the Vampire
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 8: Heinrich Heine’s Vampire Helena
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 7: Karl von Wachsmann and The Mysterious Stranger
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 6: Vampires on the German Stage
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 5: Lost in Translation
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
Controlling Fascism with Surrealism on Tradd Moore’s Variant Cover for The Department of Truth #4
Conspiracy theories, secret histories, and supernatural activity are themes at the center of The Department of Truth, written by horror-thriller mastermind James Tynion IV with its premiere art by Martin Simmonds. Several of its most collectible issues are variant covers, where artists take liberties with the general ideas within the popular comic. Tradd Moore has…
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 4: E. T. A. Hoffman’s Tale of Aurelia
Continuing a series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.