Frederic Wertham Archives

Lafargue, a radical Marxist revolutionary who worked to destabilize the governments of France and Spain, and who made Lenin believe that "a communist system" could be established around the world…and incidentally, had no faith in modern medicine… was a curious choice by Frederic Wertham for naming his psychiatric clinic in Harlem Unless perhaps he had[...]

We've drawn your attention to several instances where Wizard World comic conventions have been ramping up the educational level of some of their

By Nikolai Fomich Robert A. Emmons Jr., documentary filmmaker, Rutgers professor and lifelong comic book reader, has tackled in his new documentary

Frederic Wertham] On Friday at San Diego Comic Con, lawyer and comics journalist Jeff Trexler (The Beat, The Comics Journal) moderated the panel "Sixty Years of Seduction: Right, Wrong, and Wertham." On hand to discuss Dr Frederic Wertham and his surprisingly complex legacy were documentary filmmaker and professor Robert A Emmons Jr., director of the new[...]

By Christopher Smith In this, the fourth installment of our ongoing column series, Christopher Smith takes us on a tour through his own back pages as a

By Jared Cornelius   This week California Senator Leland Yee was indicted on charges of corruption and weapons brokering among other things.  While the