At the University of Mary Washington
Maybe you’ve seen the movie. Maybe you’ve only heard about the movie, heard about how it was Brandon Lee’s last performance after a fatal gun accident on set – a true story that only reinforces the tragedy of The Crow. But before any of that, James O’Barr penned the comics, a graphic novel that traces […]
by MILEN MEHARI Gender, a socially constructed concept, is heavily dependent on social policing in the production of gender norms. While social policing is typically observed as an activity that the general public inflicts onto apparent deviants of this norm, everyone takes part in the policing of gender. Even those who stray from gender norms […]
Even though our class only read the first volume of Bitch Planet, I continued to check back at a website I found where the newest issues were uploaded every month. Once I reached Issue #8, I noticed an ineteresting development in the story that we hadn’t gotten the chance to experience in class: the comic’s commentary […]
In a post entitled Sweet, Sweet Baby Blues, blogger Livesay discusses just what it is that makes this 26 year-old comic so lovable. The consensus, it seems, is that the strip is honest, realistic, and relatable. It’s no doubt true that many parents can identify with Darryl and Wanda MacPherson, especially given that the show is […]