I can’t believe this is our last Comics THORsday of the year! 2016 has proven to be a very rocky year. Today I’m going to share my 2016 comic book selection of best comics. Although this year has been weird, …
Welcome to another comics THORsday! We’re going to talk about the Marvel Method today. It is a model of comic production that some publishers use and that was introduced by Stan Lee in the 60s. As he was overworked, writing …
Welcome to Comics THORsday! This time is a rather surprising topic for me: comic literacy, learning to read comics. Time ago I was approached by one of my friends who does not read comics. He said to me that he …
Welcome to Comics THORsday! This week… on Friday! Today we’re going to explore how superhero comics might hide critics on present society. And we’re going to do it exploring Marvel’s Superior Iron Man Infamous and how it presents a critical …
Welcome to comics THORsday! Today we’re going to talk about the different genres that we can find in comic books. A genre is just a type of classification. Comics, like books and movies, are classified in different groups using as …
Welcome to comics THORsday! Today we’re taking a test. How much do you remember about what we’ve been talking about comics? If you want, you can check out the introduction to comics in this blog, and then, jump to the …
Welcome to comics THORsday! Today we’re going to give a look at modern Myths & Archetypes. Modern mythology does exist, specially in American comics. From times immemorial, different societies have expressed their beliefs, cultural values and fears through myths and …
Welcome to comics THORsday! Today we’re going to take a quick look at comics as a visual language. In a sense, we can understand comics as sequences of images working as a language. Neil Cohn has a great page dedicated …
Welcome to comics THORsday! Today we’ll take a look at comics from a publishing perspective. We’ll also take a look at what happens when publishing companies adapt their comics to different markets. We’ll use superhero comics to do so. As …
Welcome to comics THORsday, an introduction to comics! Every THORsday we’ll explore comics: what are they, what are superhero comics, which is their history, what is the psychology of superheroes, and we’ll take a look to them from an anthropological …