As defined by the famous cartoonist Scott McCloud in the influential Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, comics are "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to ...

Hi, I’m Melis, the creator of Hysterical Chronica! On my website, I write history articles alongside comics to bring the past ...

A detail from Johnny Craig's infamous cover to "Crime SuspenStories" No. 22 from EC Comics. Credit: Comic Book cover For avid followers of comic book history, 1954 was the most epochal, unsettling, ...

New York-based cocktail historian David Wondrich had most recently finished editing an 860-plus-page compendium of knowledge about cocktail history when the opportunity arose to share cocktail history ...

New York-based cocktail historian David Wondrich had most recently finished editing an 860-plus-page compendium of knowledge about cocktail history when the opportunity arose to share cocktail history ...

Thanks to several decades of comic book saturation at the movies, we all know the plot beats of a superhero epic. An intriguing origin. A rise to power. An unexpected fall followed by a journey in the ...

EAST LANSING, MI — Before visiting Michigan State University’s massive comic book collection, I asked librarian Jason Larsen to set aside what he considers the five rarest or quirkiest items. Not the ...

The Justice League is the most storied team in the comic industry and it's fielded some of the most important superheroines ...

The Justice League has so many amazing stories, and some of them will make even people who don't like the team fall in love.