Detail of Pauline Loth’s “Miss America” (1945) (all photographs courtesy Fantagraphics) Women have been involved in cartoons and comics from their beginning, although much of their work has languished ...

As defined by the famous cartoonist Scott McCloud in the influential Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, comics are "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to ...

X-Men (Vol. 2) #1 is the best-selling comic in the history of the industry, and made the ’90s the decade of the X-Men. Marvel went all out for the book, getting Jim Lee and Scott Williams to draw a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the elements of Superman lore that have existed since 1938, the toughest for modern audiences to swallow has been the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A five-story replica of a stamp of Superman in 1998 in Cleveland, home of the superhero's creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.