Cheryl Blossom: Too “Liberated” for Riverdale

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Fan’s of the CW’s Riverdale know Cheryl Blossom as the unscrupulous rich girl with serious fashion sense who lives by her own moral code. But many viewers might not know that Cheryl has a longer history in the Archieverse than her latest TV incarnation. Cheryl Blossom  #1 (Archie Comics, December 2018) invites us to remedy… Read more »

Captain Condom: a Safer Sex Superhero

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Captain Condom's Transformation. DPN #2,1991 At the Perspectives on Graphic Medicine panel discussion, I presented some preliminary research I’ve been doing on the visual culture of the early years of the AIDS epidemic, exploring how the HIV positive body is reproduced and represented in ephemera and popular culture. In my talk, I introduced Captain Condom, a serial comic that appeared in AIDS zine Diseased… Read more »

Hey, Where Did the Comics Go?

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If you’ve been standing in one place spinning in circles on the first floor of Willis Library looking for the Graphic Novels section, you’re not hallucinating, they really did move! You can find them in their own section on the third floor of Willis. Just take the elevator (or the stairs if you’re feeling frisky)… Read more »