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Lynn Varley

Eisner Awards

The 2024 Eisner Awards and Hall of Fame induction ceremony: photo galleries

Chris Anthony Diaz | November 15, 2024

Frank Miller

Meanwhile, 40 Years Later…

Tegan O'Neil | April 25, 2024

Articles

Diana Schutz

Work and Pleasure: Diana Schutz, Today

The longtime industry editor and newly-minted Eisner Hall of Fame inductee reflects on business, technology, industry politics, and an unyielding passion for comics.

Paul Neal | September 25, 2023

How Ayn Rand Influenced Comic Books

Echoes of the infamous author in the superhero comic book behemoths of the 1980s – satirized in Watchmen, and domesticated in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.

Conor Spielberg | July 14, 2021

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Otaku – Frank Miller and Ronin

Revisiting the Frank Miller/Lynn Varley epic of the early ’80s as a story of fanboy dreams – embraced, defied, and deified.

Tom Shapira | May 27, 2021

The Dark Knight Returns: Art Makes Sense If You Force It To

A new comics reader decides to cram the titles that comics call their canon. In the first installment, it’s Frank Miller’s take on an aging Batman that gets the spotlight.

H. W. Thurston | May 1, 2019

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