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These are the posts from April 2013

April 21, 2013
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As The Superhero Turns 75, A Look at DC’s Golden Age.

Released in late 2010, Taschen’s imperious 75 YEARS OF DC COMICS: THE ART OF MODERN MYTHMAKING made for a stunning addition to my Comics Reference library. Bearing the sheer authority of author Paul Levitz, whose entire professional life had been devoted to the illustrious comics publisher, the books’ 750 pages and over 2000 images makes it […]

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April 20, 2013
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Great Rao! My First Academic Paper (Suitably, On Superman)…!

It’s been three years since I first I first entered the world of Academia as a lecturer for the University of Hertfordshire and, I have been progressively embracing a key concern of career academics: Research. Broadly speaking, I would like to pursue a PhD in the future, but, if my greatly desired plan of achieving a […]

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Photographing God’s Lonely Man

Far and away my favourite era of cinema is “The New Hollywood”, generally perceived to have run from 1968 to 1983 and which I was born in the middle of (1974). It was a period of tectonic change in Hollywood, with 1975’s Jaws generating the commercial paradigm of” the blockbuster” which remains to this day Hollywood’s dominant mode. […]

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April 12, 2013
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Help Illuminate The Sordid 90’s Underbelly of British Comics!

Longtime professional acquaintance and friend Tim Pilcher is a kindred spirit in as much as Comics have defined his entire life. “Comics were undoubtedly in my blood from day one.” he proclaims, “I had ‘four colour funnies’ running through my veins before I’d even heard the expression. Cut me and I bled cyan, magenta, yellow […]

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INCOMING: DG Explores The Universe of Angry Birds!

Next month will see the publication of my latest book , ANGRY BIRDS: HATCHING A UNIVERSE, the first about the phenomenally successful mobile gaming  – and now firmly multi-media – franchise, created by Finland’s Rovio Entertainment. Written late last year for Insight Editions and in close collaboration with Rovio, Hatching A Universe was an interesting project […]

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