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History Today describes how the communists of China made use of a form of comic called “Lianhuanhua” for producing propaganda: The Chinese folk tale The Snail-Shell Girl tells the story of a poor man who falls in love with a beautiful woman who lives in a shell, their path to happiness thwarted by […]

Australian Broadcasting reports on a controversy that’s come up involving the late convicted rapist/murderer Leonard Lawson, a former comics artist in the 1950s previously spoken about here, who had drawn artwork on the walls of a former prison being converted into a health center, and whose current staff are now removing, and here’s why: The […]

Business Insider interviewed the overrated Tom King, who told how he first began working in comicdom, and now, regrettably, has also gone on to work in TV and film projects: To say that Tom King has had a varied career is an understatement. As a little boy growing up in Los Angeles, King wanted […]

The Art Newspaper reports that art drafts of Deadpool’s first appearance are now selling big on the speculator market auction, the very problematic platform that led to a disaster for the comics market in the 1990s: The original artwork for a page from the comic book New Mutants No. 98, in which the character […]

A reviewer at AV Club is disappointed with the new Marvel Rivals videogame, which he says doesn’t feel like Marvel, but more like Overwatch: There’s a fun game you can play while playing the (frequently unfun) new online shooter Marvel Rivals. I call it “Hey, Which Overwatch Character Is This Weird Version Of A […]

The BBC ran a history article about the late Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, and how he developed his classic cast of kids led by Charlie Brown:

Euronews/AP Wire has some more about Popeye’s entering public domain in 2025 (which, as previously noted, is unfortunately being taken advantage of by horror film directors) along with a notable European comics figure who first appeared around the same time as the spinach-eating sailor: Crack open the spinach and get yourself a trusty Fox Terrier […]

Sony's Kraven the Hunter movie flopped even worse than Madame Web, as NY's Vulture reports