Issue 6, Fall 2014
The Comics Decoder
Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed
Issue 6, Fall 2014
Added January 10th, 2015:
Thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo Tragedy / R. W. Watkins
Who Created Spider-Man? / Randall Hugh Crawford
The man who gave us Nice Day Comix takes a decidedly different approach to that age-old question
Inspired by Mr. Crawford, the editor offers up his opinion on exactly what element of Spider-Man was Stan Lee’s major contribution...
Peter Parker, Postwar NYC Jew:
Stan Lee's Contribution to the Spider-Man Mythos / R. W. Watkins
The Myth of Stan Lee: An Opinion / Randall Hugh Crawford
While still on a roll, Mr. Crawford weighs in on Stan the Man’s contributions to Marvel Comics in general,
the mainstream media’s anachronistic ‘revelations’, and perpetually duped comic fans
Just when you think our world revolves solely around Spider-Man,
a novelist and Paris Review reader gives us her non-generic take on the final installment in Charles Burn’s surrealistic trilogy...
Charles Burns's Sugar Skull: An Assessment / Valerie Stivers-Isakova
Of Raccoons and Robber Barons:
A Review of Dennis Hyer’s Complete Mullein Fields / R. W. Watkins
Mr. Watkins’s impressions of the new collection by Mr. Hyer of Inhuman Relations fame (see ‘The Funnies’ section)
Why Do They Still Call Them ‘Comic Books’? / R. W. Watkins
In this era of high-gloss interiors and digital composition,
Mr. Watkins points out that the medium is the message more so than ever — while the reader is no longer even the content!
About this issue's contributors...
Brief bios with pics
ARCHIVES
The Funnies
Grant Snider's Incidental Comics (2 installments), Bill Harvey's The Odds (6 installments),
Jessica Tremblay’s Old Pond Comics (6 installments), Dennis Hyer's Inhuman Relations (4 installments),
Steven Lewis's Murdercake
(Added January 9th 2015, in recognition of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris)
The Odds by Bill Harvey
(Added January 13th 2015, in recognition of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris)
Incidental Comics by Grant Snider
The Odds by Bill Harvey
The Odds by Bill Harvey
Inhuman Relations by Dennis Hyer
The Odds by Bill Harvey
Murdercake by Steven Lewis
The Odds by Bill Harvey
Incidental Comics by Grant Snider
The Odds by Bill Harvey
