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ComicConnect Sponsored Post ComicConnect has some fascinating pieces of film and television history up for auction ending Monday, April 12 These pieces include Wolverine's claws from X2, Niki's straight jacket costume piece from the TV show Heroes, and an authentic piece of actual TV history – a street sign from Paramount's short-lived television company from the[...]

While series creator and writer Michael Hirst's (Elizabeth, The Tudors) critically-acclaimed series Vikings may have come to an end last month on Amazon Prime (later in 2021 on History), his Vikings-verse is set to live on at Netflix with spinoff series Vikings: Valhalla Written and executive produced by Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, The Fugitive), the[...]

While series creator and writer Michael Hirst's (Elizabeth, The Tudors) critically-acclaimed series Vikings may be coming to an end this month (on Amazon Prime, later in 2021 on History), his Vikings-verse is set to live on at Netflix with sequel series Vikings: Valhalla Written and executive produced by Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, The Fugitive) and[...]

Some good news and bad news for fans of History and Michael Hirst's historical drama Vikings On the plus side, Hirst's family saga focusing on the lives and epic adventures of the Nordic raiders and explorers of the Dark Ages will be back on December 30 in the U.S., UK, Germany, Austria, and Ireland[...]

Today we take a look at the depiction of communism and communist in comic books, specifically highlighting a book called Is This Tomorrow?

Mulan Joins the Army is the earliest available movie version of the Mulan story. There were two silent movies made before it, but they’re lost. It’s the

Last Gasp, 2004 Although history and media have long addressed the bombings of Japan in various movies and depictions (The Wolverine, for example), none have been as succinct or distressing as what Nakazawa portrayed through the eyes of a grade-school aged child: monsters walking through the streets with skin melting from their faces, moaning for water[...]

Chick is generally not one of the first names brought up when comic fans discuss the greats of the industry…but this cartoonist and publisher is, in fact, one of the most controversial figures in comic book history that you may not have heard of. Born on April 13th, 1924, Jack Chick lived a typical American lifestyle[...]

In their effort to spin the violation of international law, author A.C. Clem Langdon propagated a comic book called Grenada: Rescued From Rape and Slavery

Combs has sold their debut nonfiction YA graphic novel, Trans History: A Graphic Novel at auction to Andrea Tompa at publishers Candlewick. Written and illustrated from an #OwnVoices perspective, Trans History: A Graphic Novel will be published in 2023 and aims to introduce readers to the history of transgender identities, the transgender rights movement, and what it means to be[...]

With writer/artist Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns) and writer/producer Tom Wheeler's (Puss In Boots) Cursed spending its first weekend before the masses, the streaming service is offering viewers a "history lesson" of how Nimue's (13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford) journey and the legend of King Arthur came to be While the Netflix series is[...]

Now with the series more than a month away (more on tht below), the cable network released a new teaser trailer that offers a bit of a "alternative history lesson" on how witches have been defending this nation for over 300 years. As they ready for a new and different kind of war… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud2eN80teZ0 At this month's Television[...]

In September 2020, Yoe Press look to rewrite the history of the comics industry one more time, with a book by comics historian Ken Quattro, often known as The Comics Detective, about black comic book creators – not now, not in recent time, but in the nineteen-thirties, forties and fifties, known as The Golden Age[...]

Series creator and writer Michael Hirst's (Elizabeth, The Tudors) critically-acclaimed series Vikings may be ending its run on History, but Hirst's Vikings-verse will live on at Netflix with sequel series Vikings: Valhalla. Written and executive produced by Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, The Fugitive), Vikings: Valhalla begins 100 years after the original series concludes and dramatizes the[...]

Sanchez has worked with Eliot for years and he has astounded us yet again with the imaginative and layered world of Motherland: Fort Salem." – Adam McKay Last month, viewers were given an extended look at the upcoming series – where Witches becoming warriors… and where their history-changing training begins, in this official trailer for Freeform's Motherland:[...]