Exploring The Decades-Long Struggle Between DC And Marvel
DC and Marvel Comics have stood as the two titans of the comic book industry for more than 50 years and, like a superhero squaring off against his nemesis, the two have spent much of that time battling...
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Cartoonist Reza Farazmand Walks Us Through Some Of His 'Comics For A Strange...
A swaggering vampire, a ghost detective with an existential crisis, and various members from a particularly deadpan subset of the animal kingdom share snapshots of their lives in cartoonist Reza...
View ArticleJan. 16: PDX Musicians Remember David Bowie, Beat Connection, Ibrahim...
This week on State of Wonder: Oregonians mourn the death of a legend (including some who shared his stage), a Portland artist helps reboot DC Comics’ Dr. Fate, and a blind but colorful painter in...
View ArticleFighting For The Dream of Economic Justice
Coming up on today's show:There is a new effort underway to renew Dr. Martin Luther King’s campaign against poverty. On this holiday honoring the late civil rights icon, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis,...
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The Long Evolution of Black Comics
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentOn this Martin Luther King Jr. day, we turn to comics, in particular black comics. The 6th Annual Black Comic Book Festival took place over the...
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A Superhero Movie Got A Screenplay Nomination: Glitch Or Game-Changer?
In the not-so-wee, not-so-small hours of the morning Tuesday — 8:30-ish a.m. Eastern Time — a superhero film earned itself an Oscar nomination.That wasn't so unusual, really. The superhero film genre...
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How I use comic books as a learning tool in my social studies classroom
Superheroes come in all shapes and colors: Ms. Marvel is a Pakistani American; Spider-Man, aka Miles Morales, is a Black Hispanic teen; and Faith is a plus-size crime fighter. Ms. Marvel and Super-Man...
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'Black Panther' Is A Superhero Story You Haven't Seen Before — And It's...
In 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster — two Jewish kids from Cleveland who were reading the alarming news coming out of Europe — created precisely the hero necessary to put things right: an impossibly...
View ArticleAfter 'Black Panther': Roxane Gay on What's Still Missing From the Marvel...
Marvel's “Black Panther” comes out this Friday, and the buzz surrounding it has reached a fever pitch. After 17 films, the studio is finally releasing a movie headlined solely by a black superhero.The...
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Why we need plus-sized superheroes like Faith Herbert
Cover photo of Faith by Marguerite Sauvage. Faith Herbert on the left also known as superhero Zephyr on the right. Photo courtesy of Valiant Comics“What would a grimdark, totally intimidating hero (who...
View ArticleLeslie Jamison on Addiction, Remembering the Golden Age of Comics, Howard...
Leslie Jamison discusses her memoir, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath. As part of our Change-Makers Series, Father Jim O’Shea, Efrain Hernandez and Shawn Moody talk about Reconnect...
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Here's What You Need To Know About Infinity Stones Before The New Avengers...
Call them the Mighty Marvel Movie MacGuffins. They're the glittery objects that drove the plots of several individual Marvel movies and that collectively shaped the direction the entire Marvel...
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Man Of Steel, Belted: 'Action Comics #1000' And The Return Of A Super-Accessory
It's not about the numbering.You'll be hearing a lot this week about the publishing milestone DC Comics' Action Comics has achieved, with the publication of issue #1000, on shelves (physical and...
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OK, Let's Talk About The Ending Of 'Avengers: Infinity War'
This post contains extensive spoilers for the ending of Avengers: Infinity War. If you do not wish to be spoiled, read no further.....I don't trust you.You're reading this, but you haven't seen...
View ArticleThe Joys & Challenges of Being a Female Comedian
Comedians Veronica Mosey, Agunda Okeyo and Pat Brown discuss the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the challenges and joys of being a female comedian.This segment is guest hosted by...
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Getting Your Laughs Where You Can In The Wide World Of Stand-Up
How's your week going so far?That well, huh? We understand.Over on our show, Pop Culture Happy Hour, we recently spent an episode talking all about comedy specials, which play a unique role for us in...
View ArticleNever Meet Your (Super) Heroes
There’s a new battlefield in the culture wars: comic books. The alt-right now has gotten in the business, led by a buxom, Confederate flag-waving superhero named Rebel and a white vigilante who turns...
View ArticleStan Lee talks about his creations in 1970
In 1970 Stan Lee sat down with New York Magazine's Lindsy and Lawrence Van Gelder on WNYC to talk about his super heroes as real people in a real world with real world problems, super powers aside....
View Article'Captain Marvel', 'Special', 'Hail Satan', 'Oklahoma', 'Believed', Gothamist
Comic book and television writer Kelly Sue DeConnick joins us to discusses her work on the female-led superhero film “Captain Marvel.”Ryan O'Connell joins us to talk about “Special,” the Netflix series...
View ArticleWriting 'Captain Marvel'
Comic book and television writer Kelly Sue DeConnickjoins us to discusses her work on the female-led superhero film “Captain Marvel.”
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