Diagram for Delinquents Archives

By Nikolai Fomich [Diagram for Delinquents] Robert A Emmons Jr., documentary filmmaker, Rutgers professor and lifelong comic book reader, has tackled in his new documentary Diagram for Delinquents the most hated man in comic book history – Dr Fredric Wertham Wertham's legacy needs no introduction, but the man himself may be another story Though we vilify him[...]

Emmons Jr., director of the new film on Wertham Diagram for Delinquents, history professor Bradford W Wright, author of Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America, librarian and professor Carol Tilley, whose research into Wertham's methodology proved that his work on comics was scientifically unsubstantiated, and forensic psychiatrists Dr Praveen R Kambam[...]