Sociology

Knock knock, it's me — an old X-Men fan who is excited about caring again!

San Diego’s Local KPBS Television Broadcasting has led the One Book, One San Diego program for the last 11 years. Each year, one book...

  A confession: I've been struggling all week to know what to say about the Harvey Weinstein scandal. I mean, #metoo because #existingwhilefemale. I reistsed...

This year marked the thirtieth-year in which the Gays in Comics panel has existed. When Andy Mangels began the panel three-decades ago, he called...

If you are familiar, or in the least semi-familiar, with the early history of the comic medium, images of fit men flying and punching...

Speaking of politics, one of the strangest stories this year has been the appropriation of Pepe the Frog as a symbol for white supremacist...

I was honored to participate in this NPR piece on the late Kim Yale produced by Neda Ulaby. Yale co-wrote many DC stories with...

"The Winds of Winter," the finale to the sixth season of HBO's Game of Thrones was one of the most thrilling episodes of television...

Years ago I found myself in Sofia, Bulgaria as part of the production team on a Dolph Lundgren movie I had written (in three days because that’s how the low-budget action kingdom works), kept around to do last-minute changes as is sometimes the case in filmmaking. Bulgaria was a remarkable place, a country with a much older history than America, a history you felt in the architecture, in the manner and the speech of people who had not forgotten the old ways.

The firing of Shelly Bond after more than 20 years of loyal service to DC has had an unintended consequence. Although referencing incidents utterly...

The second of the Matrix moviemakers, and sometime comics scripter/publishers (they had their own comics company called Burlyman for a while), has now come...

When I saw an item about a new book in TwoMorrows Modern Masters from Paolo Rivera in my feed I thought "Oh cool! Rivera...