Charles Hatfield
Articles
The Best Comics of 2021
Gadzooks! It’s the Best Comics of 2021! And it’s so long, you can read it until 2023.
Tom Inge and What He Did
Charles Hatfield remembers one of the giants of the academic study of comics – M. Thomas Inge (1936-2021), author of Comics as Culture, and a crucial guiding force for generations of scholars.
A Clyde Fans Roundtable
Seven comics scholars and Seth experts discuss the long-awaited, twenty-years-in-the-making complete collection of Seth’s Clyde Fans.
Tributes to Richard Thompson
Memories from Warren Bernard, Craig Fischer, Charles Hatfield, and others.
SDCC12: CAC Session #7: Jack Kirby and the Auteur Theory of Comics
Arlen Schumer and Randolph Hoppe theorize that artist Jack Kirby was a de facto co-creator and co-author, with the credited writer, of his work.
Maurice Sendak: Tributes
Artists and writers comment on one of their own.
Jack Kirby: Hand of Fire Roundtable (Part 3)
William Blake, Steve Ditko, and the idea of analogues in this final part of our Hand of Fire roundtable.
Jack Kirby: Hand of Fire Roundtable (Part 2)
Part two of our Jack Kirby/Hand of Fire roundtable, in which Philip K. Dick makes an appearance.
Jack Kirby: Hand of Fire Roundtable (Part 1)
A roundtable on the occasion of Charles Hatfield’s book, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, with contributions from Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, Sarah Boxer, Doug Harvey, Dan Nadel, and Robert Fiore.
