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MoCCA Fest Through the Years1
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival (MoCCA Fest) has been an annual New York City event since 2002. I have been attending it on and off for well over a decade. My time at the MoCCA Fest this year was dripping with nostalgia. Since that weekend this Spring, I have looked back at
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Who Gets To Be A Sacrifice? On Black Widow in Avengers: Endgame0
- Essays, Opinion, Television and Film
- May 31, 2019
I don’t know how to feel about Black Widow.
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4 Colorism, or, White Paper/Brown Pixels0
Welcome back to this two part series on comics, color printing technology, and dark skin! We’re still here, trying to figure out brown. Luckily, things get a little less ashy from here on out. In the last section, we thought about technological biases against brown skin, which have cropped up and persisted in film technology and—I’ve
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Avengers: Endgame – Captain America, Friendship, and Masculinity2
- Essays, Opinion, Television and Film
- May 27, 2019
By now, most of us have seen Avengers: Endgame. While the film gave us a lot of feels, it certainly wasn’t without its problems. As the Avengers’ swan song, and the wrap-up of so many storylines, what was surprising was the lack of closure for Steve Rogers and his platonic, male friendships.
READ MORE4 Colorism, or, the Ashiness of it All4
A few Christmases ago my mom got me a couple comic books she’d found in a bargain bin. Her thought was: “These are beyond mortal comprehension…better give them to Zoe.” I sat there with two issues of Gold Key’s Brothers of the Spear in my hands and thought, gosh, mom, I don’t know where to
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Gotham: The Batman Series We Wanted, or the One We Deserved?0
- Television and Film, Essays
- May 20, 2019
Fox’s Gotham has come to an end after an abrupt cancellation in 2018 that was overturned. The popularity of Gotham granted it one final, albeit curtailed, season that turned out to be a fitting end to a show that didn’t always hit its mark, though not for lack of trying.
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"Bismuth" and Steven Universe's Racial Coding Problem
- Essays
- August 30, 2016
