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His taboo-breaking artwork was filled with sex, violence and savage humor, and inspired cartoonists including his friend Robert Crumb.

The Bat is Out of the Bag February 4, 2021| There has never been a time in the entertainment business when there has been such a saturation of comic book characters on the screen – Hollywood blockbusters, network TV, and cable TV. Superheroes are hot. Whether it’s the sexy bodies in tight spandex or the need for us to escape our social and political roller coaster with some heightened fantasy and the belief that there are good heroes out there, the demand for more caped content is high. Th...

I was eight when I saw my first R-rated movie. I had two friends over – Jake and Michelle – and my mother took us to the video store to rent a movie. No doubt Mom expected us to pick something Disney, or, if not that, something on the G-end of PG, like The Goonies. But Michelle – a raven-haired little angel who might’ve been the inspiration for Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years – had another idea. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter. Mom was … a bit dismayed. This wasn’t Greml...

Portland creators are getting in on the boom. By Julia Silverman 12/13/2020 at 5:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Portland Monthly An hour before the panel of authors was set to take the stage, the line at the 2019 Portland Book Festival event was already at least 1,000 hard-core, book-clutching fans deep, most of them craning their necks and standing on tiptoe, trying to game out whether they were close enough to the front of the line to snag a spot inside the 376-seat Whitsell Aud...

Seduction of the Innocent", a book purporting that comic book reading causes juvenile delinquency. In true McCarthy-era fashion, the U.S. Senate holds hearings to investigate Werthams claims. Dr. Wertham was called to testify at the hearings, as were other juvenile delinquency experts, representatives of the major comic companies, some of their advertisers and distributors, and the representatives from National Cartoonist Society. Dr. Wertham came out on top. He had a lot of experience testifyi...