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The Golden Age Girls: Understanding Age and Identity: Insights from Comics

An examination of ageing in comics via Cliff Chiang’s Catwoman Lonely City, Jaime Hernandez Locas and Alison Bechdel’s The Secrets of Superhuman Strength. Ursula K. Le Guin was one of the greatest authors of the Twentieth Century. She was thoughtful, critical and often years ahead of her time. Her astonishing book The Left Hand of Darkness written in the 1970s imagined a society with no … Continue reading The Golden Age Girls: Understanding Age and Identity: Insights from Comics

Review – Queen of the Ring – Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980-2020

Whoa, Jaime! When I first discovered Love and Rockets in the late Eighties with its depiction of latinx punks in California and the wider society around them, I was entranced. The Hernandez brothers were just depicting their everyday world but to me in faraway, provincial Scotland it was a wonderland. The fashion, both punk and ‘cholo’ – the cars, the music, the expressions. I spent … Continue reading Review – Queen of the Ring – Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980-2020

This Book Could Be Your Life

Love and Rockets – Punk, Pettibon and the Birth of the Cool I recently commissioned James Corcoran to draw me his version of Maggie and Hopey from Love and Rockets. A very tall order I know as Jaime Hernandez is one of the greatest comics artists of all time. I loved his wrestling themed drawing and the extra sketch of Penny Century was absolutely amazing. … Continue reading This Book Could Be Your Life