MINOR AT HEART
The end of MAD, once a boon in comics' end-times
At The Nation, Jeet Heer writes about the impact of MAD magazine and references its origins, which came at a tumultuous time for the comic book industry and for EC Comics publisher William Gaines.
Probing social-protest comics of the postwar era
Comics scholar and University of South Carolina professor Qiana Whitted writes about EC’s “social-protest comics” in her new book.
Howard Nostrand, Ray Bradbury, and EC horror comics
Vintage horror comics! Reading Howard Nostrand, EC's Vault of Horror and Ray Bradbury
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Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Send him an email.