Vampires symbolically represent our fear and hatred of the aristocracy — the undying, hereditary, parasitic elite. They view the rest of us as a separate, inferior species, like cattle. They feed on us as a natural right. Serial killers, on the other hand, embody the logical extension of capitalist individualism — selfish, cruel, driven by the lust for power.
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Border Horror, Part One of Two: Infestación: The Mythology
Posted by Kristian Williams on February 3rd, 2010 at 12:01 AMA border town is, in some respects, the perfect setting for a zombie tale. The living dead already inhabit a kind of no-man’s-land.
The Work of Porn in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
Posted by Kristian Williams on January 27th, 2010 at 10:00 AM![](http://www.tcj.com/www/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/41V5mH8dtVL._SS400_.jpg"/)
Williams on Alan Moore’s take on porn.
Joe the Barbarian #1
Posted by Kristian Williams on January 22nd, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Sequence from the comic, ©2010 DC Comics
Creative writing teachers with a “show, don’t tell” mantra should follow their own advice: stop telling the students how to write and just hand them Joe the Barbarian #1. “Here, kid, like this.”
B.P.R.D. to the Rescue!
Posted by Kristian Williams on January 19th, 2010 at 10:00 AM
The Black Goddess gives us more of what we’ve come to expect from the B.P.R.D. series: monsters, magicians, daring rescues, raging conflict, and heroes returning from the dead.
A Narrator in Search of a Protagonist: Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
Posted by Kristian Williams on January 13th, 2010 at 9:00 AM
If Nevin Martell had edited an anthology of the many interviews with, articles about, and essays by, Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, it would have been a real boon to fans and scholars alike. What we get instead is the book-length equivalent of a People Magazine article, with its tone of adoration and its chatty, not-as-witty-as-it-thinks, prose. The main difference is that the star didn’t stop by for a photo shoot and interview.
The Spanish Civil War, Cartooning, and the Cultural Imagination: No Pasaran!, The Black Order Brigade, and Wolverine Part 4 of 4
Posted by Kristian Williams on December 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 AM
The Spanish Civil War, Cartooning, and the Cultural Imagination: No Pasaran!, The Black Order Brigade, and Wolverine Part 3 of 4
Posted by Kristian Williams on December 21st, 2009 at 12:01 AMPart Three: Defeated Idealists, Undefeated Idealism
Giardino’s illustrations for No Pasaran! highlight the art of the war — the propaganda posters on every available wall, war photography in the art galleries, and herds of…
The Spanish Civil War, Cartooning, and the Cultural Imagination: No Pasaran!, The Black Order Brigade, and Wolverine Part 2 of 4
Posted by Kristian Williams on December 18th, 2009 at 12:01 AMPreviously: Part 1.
Part Two: Art and Propaganda
There’s an old, bitter joke about the Spanish Civil War that runs, “They won all the battles, but we had all the great songs!”
And outside of…
The Spanish Civil War, Cartooning, and the Cultural Imagination: No Pasaran!, The Black Order Brigade, and Wolverine Part 1 of 4
Posted by Kristian Williams on December 17th, 2009 at 12:01 AMPart One: A War of Memory and Imagination
There are two deaths at the end of Guillermo del Toro’s film Pan’s Labyrinth. One is that of Ofelia, a young girl who tries to escape her abusive stepfather by…
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