Indian Comics Irregular #59 Many people think "Huckleberry Finn" is America's greatest novel and Mark Twain America's greatest writer. Perhaps, but as I've...
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Jun 21, 2001 1:19 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #60 For those who think racial prejudice isn't deeply ingrained in our society, here's a sobering news item. From the LA Times,...
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Jul 9, 2001 12:51 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #61 2001 is only half over, but already we have a winner for Comic Book of the Year. WONDER WOMAN #170 is the best comic I've read...
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Jul 26, 2001 12:02 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #62 Most people think Hitler and his genocidal policies were the unique product of an evil mind. Not quite. As John Toland notes in...
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Aug 11, 2001 3:34 am
Indian Comics Irregular #63 In his paintings, Chicano artist Enrique Chagoya juxtaposes pop cultural references with imagery from pre-Columbian and colonial ...
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Aug 27, 2001 6:23 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #64 In "Adolf Hitler: A True American" (ICI #62), I neglected an obvious connection between pulp fiction and genocide: Superman....
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Sep 14, 2001 12:51 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #65 "An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind." Mohandas K. Gandhi In the wake of the 9/11 holocaust in New York City, I...
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Oct 2, 2001 3:36 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #66 As America mourns its fallen comrades, I've been posting material on the subject almost daily. The terrorist attacks may be the...
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Oct 22, 2001 6:46 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #67 Addressing the new television season, CBS.com says: There are strange happenings in the small Pacific Northwest town of Wolf Lake,...
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Nov 10, 2001 11:15 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #68 A correspondent who works at a television studio sent me the following note: Here's an excerpt from our latest "clearance memo" (as...
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Nov 26, 2001 9:19 am
Indian Comics Irregular #69 In DC Comics' Just Imagine series, longtime Marvel mogul Stan Lee is re-imagining 12 of DC's superheroes. Among them are an...
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Dec 15, 2001 8:50 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #70 On "The West Wing" recently, a tribal chairman and his assistant were scheduled to meet a White House official the day before ...
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Jan 7, 2002 1:37 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #71 Last year I reported on Dan Red Eagle Comics in "Christian Indian Comics Online" (ICI #40). Though their Christian message was...
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Jan 17, 2002 3:01 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #72 The PETER PARKER 2001 annual offers an untold tale of Spider-Man. One summer in high school, Peter journeys to Peru to do field...
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Feb 7, 2002 9:37 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #73 Newspaper cartoons rarely depict indigenous cultures from centuries ago. Indians and South Seas cannibals are about the only ...
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Feb 21, 2002 3:05 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #74 A couple of recent movies feature Native characters and lore. They also share a comic-book sensibility. Let's take a look: In...
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Mar 13, 2002 7:52 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #75 John "Thunderbird" Proudstar is, of course, the Apache superhero who debuted in GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 (1975) and died soon...
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Mar 29, 2002 1:14 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #76 Several publishers have done benefit comic books for the victims of 9/11. In the DC Comics version, titled simply "9-11," two...
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Apr 17, 2002 9:07 am
Indian Comics Irregular #77 The book "Was" is a fictional account of the "real" Dorothy. According to author Geoff Ryman, she was a girl named Dorothy Gael who...
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May 6, 2002 10:19 am
Indian Comics Irregular #78 From the LA Times, 3/25/02, on the Oscars Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won: Hollywood is a difficult industry for nonwhites....
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May 12, 2002 2:39 pm
Publisher to Talk About Native Heroes Month on Nationwide Radio Native America Calling, the nationwide electronic talking circle, will host an hour-long...
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May 24, 2002 10:58 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #79 I've commented on most of the major Native-themed comics in comic- book history. One I've yet to address is ARAK. This sword-and-...
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Jun 13, 2002 5:44 am
Indian Comics Irregular #80 DreamWorks' new movie, "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," has a Native American backdrop. Spirit is a feisty mustang of the Old...
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Jul 4, 2002 11:52 am
Indian Comics Irregular #81 "Windtalkers" is arguably the biggest Native-themed movie since "Smoke Signals," which was arguably the biggest since "Pocahontas."...
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Jul 23, 2002 11:15 am
Indian Comics Irregular #82 As a pseudo-journalist, I cover the field of Indians in pop culture. A recent study explores how real journalists cover Native...
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Aug 12, 2002 7:53 am
Indian Comics Irregular #83 With "Skins," "Christmas in the Clouds," "The Business of Fancydancing," and "Skinwalkers" coming up, this may be a great year for...
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Sep 2, 2002 2:54 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #84 For some reason, 2002 has been a banner year for Native-themed comic strips and cartoons. I have no idea why. Has the media done...
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Sep 24, 2002 6:08 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #85 Last year Disneyland took another step toward the 21st century. As an article in the LA Times (9/3/01) reported: They took away...
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Oct 15, 2002 6:36 am
Indian Comics Irregular #86 "Skins," Chris Eyre's followup to his directorial debut in "Smoke Signals," is in the theaters. Starring Eric Schweig and Graham ...
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Nov 8, 2002 3:41 pm
Indian Comics Irregular #87 Two comic strips show the alpha and omega of Indian portrayals in the new millennium. In Lynn Johnston's "For Better or Worse,"...
