Sexuality has always caused conflicts in our society and still does to this day. If you were gay you were not accepted. Today, a lot more people understand about gay couples and it is even legal to get married gay in a couple states. In comic books a long time ago, there was never any [...]
Race and Ethnicity – B.Barbarini
Race can often be defined as a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important. However, this definition can be tossed aside as myth because being labeled as Homo sapiens, there is not multiple categories for humans to be placed in. Together, we are one [...]
Disability – S.Anderson
Superheroes draw many parallels with disabled people. Disabled people and superheroes are always looked at funny or are given different treatment than the normal population when they probably don’t want to be treated differently. In the movie the fantastic 4 when everyone finds out who the invisible woman is everyone runs after her like there [...]
Powerpuff Girls – S.Baughman
Our cultural representation can be viewed upon under many different things. People have their own way of perceiving cartoons and comic books, for example female roles. Such as in the cartoon “The Powerpuff Girls,” there are many different opinions about it. Some people think having young girls roles being violent on television may harm or [...]
The Emissary
Over the course of the two semesters that I have taught this course, I have been struck by the enormity of the subjects that comic books, and the fictional superheroes that inhabit them, tackle . Moreover, I have been impressed with the attempts to examine the “big questions” of our time — what it means [...]
