Spider-Man fandom is in Tyler Scott Hoover's blood — but not because he was bitten by an irradiated arachnid. His father had collected Marvel comic books featuring the character since the 1970s.

Marvel and DC have both been laser focused on live-action, but animation could lead them into the future of their franchises.

As Doctor Strange and The Flash enter the multiverse, scientists question what it means for the future of their study. In 1961, DC Comics published the 123rd issue of The Flash. In its pages was the story “Flash of Two Worlds,” where creator and writer Gardner Fox staged the historic meeting of two superheroes from parallel worlds.

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire. 

A cartoonist discusses his new show about the development of an American art form.

Robert Crumb is an American cartoonist and major contributor to the underground comix movement in the 1960s. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991. His famous works include Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and Keep on Truckin'. These projects carry sexual themes bordering into scatological and pornographic comics.

While comic book fans obviously know DC Comics and Marvel, there are legions of other comics universes worth collecting.

How the often-maligned genre was used to train soldiers, explain the weather, and teach us about the modern world.

Four-player co-op. An open-world Metropolis. One impossible mission.

Celebrate and binge The CW’s mightiest heroes.

Lettering is a difficult job that mixes composition, typography and design. Videogames would benefit from a deeper understanding of this invisible art.

Old names and ambitious first-timers produced great graphic novels on everything from teen friendship and time travel to horrifying murder mysteries

Cosplaying isn't just a fashion statement; the pastime also helps its participants embody the characters they love and do their best to assume the traits they admire, like bravery or kindness. But even as the entertainment industry begins to make strides in increasing diversity and representation, the fact remains that most of the characters fans see on the screen or on the page tend to be thin, chiseled, healthy, and white — and many cosplayers are none of those things.

Some fans may not realize it, but we're currently in the eighth iteration of the Marvel Universe. The universe has died and restarted on eight different occasions, and the publisher plans on giving a preview of what the ninth version of its universe looks like in the Jade Giant's double-sized issue.

Superman is one of the DC Universe’s greatest heroes, but it’s sometimes easy to forget how he got there.

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Science fiction titan Ray Bradbury was a fan and supporter of graphic novels long before they were even called that.

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Despite what you may have heard, dead-tree publishing isn't dead. In fact, a host of new print magazines are bringing some wild, weird, innovative words and pictures to the alternative comics scene.