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The Patron Saint of Superheroes

Chris Gavaler Explores the Multiverse of Comics, Pop Culture, and Politics.

  • By Chris Gavaler
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly one post per week
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Sep 2023 4
Oct 2023 5
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Dec 2023 3
Jan 2024 5
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Apr 2024 5
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Jul 2024 5
Aug 2024 4
Sep 2024 5
Oct 2024 4
Nov 2024 4
Dec 2024 5
Jan 2025 2

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Most recent posts

Black Characters Colored Green
One of my all-time favorite essays, Zoe Smith’s “4 Colorism,” starts with a page from Gold Key Comics’ Brothers of the Spear #11 (December 1974) where “black people” appear “thoroughly and intensely green.” Why? Because, …
On , by Chris Gavaler, 1,002 words
“What Horror Has Magneto Wrought?”: Coloring Marvel’s Racial Fantasies
I’ll be in New Orleans soon, presenting on the MLA panel “Envisioning Racial Futures: Race, Ethnicity, and Speculative Comics.” The Comics Forum organizers asked: “How have science fiction, fantasy, and speculative graphic narratives imagined racial …
On , by Chris Gavaler, 508 words
A Farewell to Vinyl
I recently offered to drive my father’s vinyl collection to Goodwill for him. He declined. I don’t think he has a way to play them anymore, but that’s beside the point. He’s not ready to …
On , by Chris Gavaler, 554 words