What do you do if you want a book, but can’t pay for it? The answer is obvious – get it from the library. But not all libraries are created equal, and some lack the resources to acquire the material their patrons need. In particular, prison libraries are more dependent on donations of books than… Read more »
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Tales from the Comics Database: A Brief Look at EC Comics
“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s Superman!” While Superman is among the very first successful comic book characters, period, and the earliest comic book superhero, many important comics came in his wake. A market whose art and ideas were dominated by immigrants and their children, women and religious minorities, comic books were conceived… Read more »
Blackout
If you tried to use the Internet on Wednesday, you may have noticed that a lot of your favorite sites, like Wikipedia, were down. Even Google changed its logo with a big black ‘censored’ bar. All of those outages were in protest of legislation before the U.S. Congress, which could change the laws on how… Read more »