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Comics in the Golden Age Mini Episode 39: Halloween in the Vault of Horror!

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Mike digs up tales from EC’s Vault of Horror! Practical Joke from issue 30 and Beauty Rest from issue 35.
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Deconstructing Comics #468: Harvey Kurtzman’s MAD

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MADWhile early 1950s anti-comics hysteria eventually resulted in the cancellation of nearly all their books, EC Comics still had one thing going for them: MAD! Written by Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by some of the best comics artists of the age, this parody comic set the template for much that came after it. But can the humor still be appreciated today? What are we to think of some of the attitudes on display toward, say, women or certain ethnic groups? Tim and Kumar discuss.

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Comics in the Golden Age Podcast Episode 11: Weird Sciences, and Fantasies!

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Comics in the Golden Age episode 11

Episode 11: Weird Sciences, and Fantasies!

Chris and Mike discuss “Judgment Day” and “Mars is Heaven” from EC Comics’ Weird Science and Weird Fantasy.

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Comics Alternative Podcast Episode 57.1: Discussing Horror Comics at Collected Comics

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Scary Stuff!

HorrorComicsIt’s time once again for our monthly on-location show at Collected Comics in Plano, TX. This month the discussion theme is horror comics, a perfect topic for the Halloween season. On this show, Derek is joined once again by Shea Hennum as well as the shop’s assistant manager, Freddy Rick, the resident expert on all things horror. (Another store employee, Sabrina, even makes a brief vocal appearance on the podcast, sharing her uncanny love of vikings and cheese.) Among the many horror titles they discuss are The Walking Dead, Hellboy, Rachel Rising, EC’s New Trend line from the 1950s (including Tales From the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear and The Vault of Horror), Revival, Weird War Tales, Richard Corben’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, Swamp Thing, Hack/Slash, Locke and Key, almost anything by Steve Niles, and the pre-Code comics that Craig Yoe collects in his many volumes.

So get your freaky fright on for this ghoulish installment of The Comics Alternative podcast!

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Deconstructing Comics #258: The Tokyo Censorship Law

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CensorshipThe Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly recently passed a law that further limits minors’ access to “Any manga, animation, or pictures (but not including real life pictures or footage) that features either sexual or pseudo sexual acts that would be illegal in real life, or sexual or pseudo sexual acts between close relatives whose marriage would be illegal, where such depictions and / or presentations unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate the activity.” Perhaps understandable, but without clear guidelines for determining what is OK and what is not, there are fears of a slippery slope. Could this become defacto, outright censorship? Tim, Kumar, and Mulele discuss the new law, and how this situation compares to the events in the U.S. that led up to the creation of the comics code. Dan Kanemitsu’s Paper Trail — many good blog postings on the topic Editors’ defiant comments Publishers boycott anime convention “My publisher has banned school uniforms” — (visuals on this site are NOT SAFE FOR WORK) Child sex in manga: Art or Obscenity? — The Japan Times JL Roberson touts Deconstructing Comics

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