Arrrgh | #2: A Brief History of Comics Censorship

One of the topics I generally like to talk to my students about sequential art and thus comics are how they are really just another way of telling a story. Not unlike prose, visual art, dance, poetry, etc, sequential art is just a medium. The problem with this medium, is that it was massively...

WHOSOEVER HOLDS THIS HAMMER: COMICS “R” FOR KIDS

I was inspired to write this column after reading Siege #2.  The hero Sentry kills Ares by ripping him apart. Spoiler alert (I guess that should have gone first). The panel shows a lot of blood and pieces of flesh, even a section of spine. The imagery is very graphic, as it was intended to...