I wrote an article about Superheroes as a kind of brainstorm for my superhero section. I thought you guys might be interested. http://thejessejack.blogspot.com/2009/03/caped-critiquer-my-analysis-of-american.html or on the Brooklyn College Excelsior Website: http://tinyurl.com/cplcyv – Jesse

Hello all, This lecture was aimed at discussing why and how New York City has been repeated destroyed throughout American Popular Culture of the last two hundred years or so.  What it all comes down to seems to be a matter of Love and Hate. Hate is easy enough to understand, if you hate something […]

Western culture is rife with apocalyptic imagery as depicted in the Christian bible, especially from the Book of Revelation. These symbols and descriptions (brimstone and the four horsemen of the apocalypse just to name a few) have been ingrained into our “collective consciousness” and appear throughout our art. Since the conception of Revelation, apocalyptic imagery […]

Hello all, So, as you known, I will be writing my Thesis on the depiction of the Apocalypse in Graphic Narratives.  My interest in End Times was part of the reason I took Professor Quinby’s Apocalypse course last Spring term. For one of our final assignments I chose to make a short film.  I decided […]