Comics and Popular Culture
“Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance.” The Comics Journal. January 8, 2026.
“Lives of the Great Enchanters.” Fifth Estate. Spring 2025.
“The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism.” The Comics Journal. June 4, 2025.
“Give Me Liberty! A Revised History of the American Revolution.” The Comics Journal. April 2, 2025.
“Drafted.” The Comics Journal. January 21, 2025.
“Out Of Continuity: Superhero Time, the Eternal Recurrence, and the Forking Path.” Hooded Utilitarian. June 3, 2015.
“Demanding the Impossible: Walidah Imarisha Talks about Science Fiction and Social Change.” Bitchmagazine.org. April 13, 2015.
“Decoding Turing: Queer Superhero.” Hooded Utilitarian. March 11, 2015.
“Where Angels Fear to Tread: Constantine, Promethea, and the Fool.” Hooded Utilitarian. March 6, 2015.
“Red Dawn, 2012: Imperialists, Insurgents, and Role Reversal.” Hooded Utilitarian. October 1, 2014.
“The Art of ‘War’.” Progressive Populist. September 1, 2014.
“We can be heroes: Donnie Darko and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Hooded Utilitarian. August 18, 2014.
“Art, Sex, and Politics.” Toward Freedom. July 10, 2014.
“‘Like a Damn White Knight’: Feminism, Chivalry, Love and War, and Sin City.” Hooded Utilitarian. March 10, 2014.
“Sacrificing Others: Watchmen, Fail-Safe, and Eichmann in Jerusalem.” Hooded Utilitarian. November 12, 2013.
“A Suicide Pact: Means and Ends in V for Vendetta and The Rebel.” Hooded Utilitarian. April 10, 2013.
“The Legacy of Anarchy Comics.” In These Times. March 5, 2013.
“The Graphic Canon, Volume I.” The Comics Journal. January 8, 2013.
“Trial By Fire: Mad Max, Rorschach, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Hooded Utilitarian. October 9, 2012.
“Book Review: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” Toward Freedom. October 2, 2012.
“The Black Panthers in Portland.” Against the Current. July/August 2012.
“Too Much Coffee Man #1 (facsimile edition).” The Comics Journal. June 22, 2012.
“The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Book Review.” Toward Freedom. June 7, 2012.
“Black Classics Reborn, Graphically.” In These Times. April 2012.
“The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks.” The Comics Journal. February 24, 2012.
“Batman vs. Robin.” The Comics Journal. February 13, 2012.
“Alan Moore: Conversations.” The Comics Journal. January 19, 2012.
“Liar’s Kiss.” The Comics Journal. September 7, 2011.
“Crash Comics Course in Economics.” Progressive Populist. August 15, 2011.
“The Weird World of Eerie Publications.” The Comics Journal. May 2, 2011.
“Timeless Cartoons.” The Progressive Populist. June 15, 2010.
“Palestine Revisited.” In These Times. March 2010.
“Charlie Brown’s Skull (& Other Cartoon Medical Oddities): A GobQ&A with Michael Paulus.” Gobshite Quarterly. Issue 10, June 2008.
“The Unflinching Work of Joe Sacco.” Clamor. Summer 2006.
“American Cartoonists Rap on the Danish Flap.” Against the Current. July-August 2006.
“Non-Linear Narrative and Sequential Art: Alan Moore’s Superhero Deconstruction.” Is It A Book? August 2, 2005.
“The Case for Comics Journalism: Artist-Reporters Leap Tall Conventions in a Single Bound.” Columbia Journalism Review. March/April 2005..
“Batman Versus The Man.” The Progressive. March 2003..