Holy Stitches, Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am is an interdisciplinary examination of gothic affect and deviant fashion in the narrative construction of villainy. It asks not just what a villain looks like, but what it means to look like a villain. A villain is a …
The following pages describe works that I have made during the 15 months (and counting) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty years from now, glib didactics describing “this time” will pepper the walls of museums for their surveys of “art practice in the time of plague” (or whatever)…
Will Brooker presents an academic monograph that traces the various ways in which Batman has been interpreted over the years, by wartime producers, gay teenagers, pop artists, and through various other media.
Batman: the killing joke
by Moore, Alan, Bolland, Brian, Starkings, Richard, Sale, Tim
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"One bad day. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham's top cop, Comm…
From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 and to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster 'The dark knight rises', Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero. The continued relevance of the caped crusader could be attributed to his complex charac…