stackyFACTSThe iconic daily funnies you read in the sunday press are rarely drawn by the famous creator listed at the top. Most successful inkers quietly hire a fleet of unknown sketch artists to trace identical cartoon animals for decades.
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Those timely jokes in the Sunday funnies are an absolute mirage. Artists are required to submit their daily sketches up to six months before they actually…
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Graphic novels convinced millions that justice is best served by vigilantes dressed in brightly colored spandex. We somehow accepted that the most…
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Flipping through sequential paper grids filled with highly muscular heroes shouting in bolded letters remains an incredibly dominant form of storytelling.…
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Stan Lee was famous for giving his characters alliterative names (Peter Parker, Reed Richards) precisely because he had a terrible memory. Despite this trick,…
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In comic book culture, intensely killing off or severely maiming a female character purely to motivate a male hero's emotional revenge arc is heavily known as…
Discover moreThe intrepid reporter Tintin traveled to the Congo, America, and Tibet, but his creator essentially stayed on his couch. Hergé famously wrote the earliest and…
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