Best Graphic Novels and Comics About Sports

By Zack Quaintance — Comics and sports have a complicated relationship. This maybe stems back to tired and outdated bullying dynamics in schools, because I don’t know how many times I’ve heard typically older creators, say stuff like, “We’re comics people, we don’t like sports!” As if jocks versus nerds isn’t an outdated paradigm, as if everyone nowadays doesn’t watch Marvel movies; as if it were still 1988.

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Great Comics by Non-Male Creators

By Zack Quaintance — The last couple weeks have been difficult for the industry side of comics, with a number of creators being revealed as perpetrators of sexual misconduct, often by young and talented female creators who were discouraged from continuing on in an already-difficult industry by the unwanted advances. An important part of this discourse has been around what other men in comics can do to create a safer and more welcoming atmosphere.

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