While many downthetubes readers’ attention will be on T hought Bubble Festival i n Harrogate this weekend, we should also ...

There is an argument to be made that comic books started in Scotland. “Possibly the earliest comic paper was The Glasgow Looking Glass,” ...

Wycliffe's Bible is the name not of a single book ... The modern superhero as we know it would not exist without this comic book. Action Comics #1 was released in June 1938 and features the first ever ...

A 500-member jury of Athenians found Socrates guilty of corrupting the city’s youth by asking them questions. They gave him a choice. Either leave Athens or drink the poison hemlock. Socrates felt he ...

Publishers continue to invest in webcomics, finding that fans of online content will still buy the memento that is a bound book.

Have brownies always been delicious? Today we are going to bake a brownie recipe from 1904 and discuss the history of this delicious treat!

In this episode of “Preach,” Tom Massaro, S.J., joins Ricardo da Silva, S.J. to discuss how preachers can adopt the ...

Nov 12, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Michele Moses 1982’s In Thrall was a magnificent piece of queer fiction, at once comic and courageous. In Sean Baker's tragicomic film of a sex worker’s brush ...

Hanover County Public Schools banned more books from libraries last year than any other school district in the state, the free expression group PEN America reported on Friday. The organization ...

Welcome to The A.V. Club’s monthly comics preview, where we recommend new books to check out over the next few weeks. This month, we’ve got five exciting picks, ranging from environmental ...

Read on for the answers, but be aware - we'll be getting into spoiler territory! In comic books, Agatha Harkness is the very picture of an old lady with a witchy secret – but the truth about ...