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The last decade has brought about a somewhat unexpected renaissance of the visual narrative medium known as "the comics," [1] which toward the end of the seventies seemed to be on its last legs. Yet, comics remain a less-than-becoming medium for serious scholars. Joseph Witek, whose work Comic Books as History is one of the few important attempts to examine comics from a theoretically informed perspective, concludes his introduction with a rather candid acknowledgment: "The emergence of comic books as a respectable literary form [with the works of practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Harvey Pekar] in the s is unlooked for, given the long decades of cultural scorn and active social repression, but the potential has always existed for comic books to present the same kind of narratives as other verbal and pictorial media" The perception that comics are an inferior narrative medium has hindered not only their own development, as Witek suggests, but also their relationship with those media, such as cinema, that from time to time have turned to them for characters and concepts. Although in the thirties and forties many popular characters, including Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Batman, and Captain America, made the transition from paper to film, they were usually relegated to Saturday matinee serials, rather than featured in major productions. It is only recently, with the success of films like Superman and Batman and their sequels, that Hollywood has developed a real interest in the comics as a source of inspiration.

We start out with a biographical feature on the cartoonists who worked for Playboy in the mids. Sokol was arguably the most gifted artist who ever worked for Playboy, with a keen eye for all of the elements of good drawing- composition, clear silhouettes, original color harmonies, interesting staging and a keen sense of light and shade. His style evolved as time went by, and his images became more and more beautiful.

Comics and graphic novels children and teens. From celebrity-penned tales to fresh interpretations of the classics, here is our pick of the best for hungry readers from tots to teens. Published: 16 Dec Published: 10 Nov