From our upcoming interview with Professor Chambliss: Comic books are complex cultural artifacts that facilitate analysis of social, political, and economic issues through the content on the page, the production process, and the creative environment. Comic narratives are historically grounded and the people creating them directly and indirectly reflecting the philosophy, views, and mindsets at…
Keiron Gillen On the Treatment of Rape In His Alt-WW2 Comic Über
From our upcoming feature interview with Kieron Gillen: This is World War II, and there were over one million rapes in central Berlin, and the fact is this was just really how it is. I’ve never written a page more carefully than that third page, because this cannot be exploitative, this cannot be titillating. In…
WWACRadio is back and talking translation! Here’s a preview
Do you mind not being obviously credited, on the official English pages for the books you translate? Jerome Saincantin, translator: No, not at all. My name’s on the comics, which means that if anyone has reason to look for the translator, they can. And I’m not a creator per se, so I’m fine with it….