REPORT: Comics Fandom Gets “Super”sized With a Serious Museum Show

By Adam McGovern

(Adam McGovern writes for the TwoMorrows mags, Comicon.com/PULSE and ComicCritique.com in addition to ComicList. He is an accomplished speaker on comics at cons and museums, and [with artist Paolo Leandri] co-created the Ignatz-nominated comic Dr. Id, Psychologist of the Supernatural.)

An eight-foot-tall Spider-Man sculpture looms over you while colorful covers compete for your attention. A how-to video on cartooning loops while crowds form around original art pages. A visit to your local comics emporium? No, an afternoon at New Jersey’s Montclair Art Museum, where comics and culture clash and join forces in the exhibition Reflecting Culture: The Evolution of American Comic Book Superheroes, on view through January 13, 2008.

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(Adam McGovern writes for the TwoMorrows mags, Comicon.com/PULSE, and ComicCritique.com. He contributed to and copyedited The Superhero Book, has appeared on or MC'd panels at the San Diego and New York Comic Cons, and will be running a tour in November at the Montclair Art Museum's superhero-themed show in New Jersey. He also has an Ignatz-nominated comic, "Dr. Id," with artist Paolo Leandri. We here at ComicList are honored to have him write a review for this site.)

Awesome
(Evil Twin Comics)

The publishers of the unexpected indie hit Action Philosophers and the diligent talent scouts of the Indie Spinner Rack podcast bring you the latest collection of comic creators you didn’t know you couldn’t live without. You won’t find a better range and sequence of styles, a bigger bargain (less than 15 bucks) or a brisker 208 pages.

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