No Laughing Matter
Cartoons, comics, and genocide
by Hank KennedyTempest member Hank Kennedy discusses the Nazi use of cartoon propaganda and draws parallels to the Zionist attack on Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists today.
Pat Robertson: Supervillain
Revisiting the X-Men’s God Loves, Man Kills
by Hank KennedyTempest member Hank Kennedy looks back at the X-Men comic God Loves, Man Kills, which inspired a surprising fight with the famed televangelist Pat Robertson who passed away earlier this year.
Remembering Marshal Law
A tribute to comic book artist Kevin O’Neill
by Hank KennedyTempest’s Hank Kennedy pays tribute to the radical comic book artist Kevin O’Neill, who died last November.
Remembering Alan Grant
The idiosyncratic politics of the late comic writer
by Hank KennedyHank Kennedy remembers the life of comic book writer Alan Grant and the Left politics found in some of his most well-known works including Detective Comics, Batman, and Shadow of the Bat.
Why the hell not
A review of Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years
by Gary HollowayGary Holloway reviews Mike Stout’s 2020 memoir Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years.
The Vietnam War in comics, after the war
by Hank Kennedy
In the follow-up to an earlier article looking at the representation of the Vietnam War in mainstream U.S. comics, Hank Kennedy focuses on the years following the formal conclusion of the war.
In memory of Neal Adams
A defender of creator’s rights
by Hank KennedyHank Kennedy celebrates Neal Adams’ political and artistic contributions to the world of comic books in this obituary.
Vietnam war in balloons and panels
by Hank Kennedy
Hank Kennedy explores the depictions of the Vietnam War in popular comics from the 1960s.
It’s a bird, It’s a plane…no, it’s a union!
Image comics workers certify
by Hank KennedyHank Kennedy situates the recent organizing drive of workers at Image comics into a longer history of efforts at Union organizing in that industry.