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Pulp Nonfiction

Paul Buhle ▪ March 18, 2016

“Zippy” creator Bill Griffith’s new book Invisible Ink is a curious masterpiece, merging the real-life personal saga of his mother with the story of the forgotten pulps.

Are Comics Art?

Paul Buhle ▪ January 10, 2015

Here, Richard McGuire’s spare and insular foray into the comic-art world, eludes any easy categorization.

More Horror Than Hope: The Comic Art of World War 3 Illustrated

Paul Buhle ▪ July 24, 2014

Since the late 1970s, World War 3 Illustrated has channeled comic artists’ outrage at a world of endless war, ecological exploitation, and the brutalization of social relations.

Scott Walker Raises His Sights

Paul Buhle ▪ December 16, 2013

Readers of Dissent are unlikely to be newcomers to Wisconsin’s recent political saga. With oddball events unfolding week by week, however, they may easily have lost track. American conservatives have not forgotten.

Spain Rodriguez (1940-2012)

Paul Buhle ▪ December 3, 2012

We are now so far from the 1960s and ’70s that the crucial locations, personalities, and moments of one very popular art form’s transformation have been largely forgotten. Spain Rodriguez, with a handful of others (the best remembered are happily …

Wisconsin: Defeat and New Beginnings?

Paul Buhle ▪ June 6, 2012

Paul Buhle: Wisconsin – Defeat and New Beginnings?

Once Again, Spring in Wisconsin

Paul Buhle ▪ March 12, 2012

Paul Buhle: Once Again, Spring in Wisconsin

Why Is Wisconsin Different?

Paul Buhle ▪ December 9, 2011

Paul Buhle: Why Is Wisconsin Different?

Robin Hood (Again!)

Paul Buhle ▪ October 27, 2011

Paul Buhle: Robin Hood Returns

The Late Harvey Pekar

Paul Buhle ▪ September 30, 2011

Paul Buhle: The Late Harvey Pekar

Day 5 in Madison, Wisconsin: Middle East and Middle West?

Paul Buhle ▪ February 21, 2011

Paul Buhle: Day 5 in Madison, Wisconsin – Middle East and Middle West?

The Cold War: What Needs to Be Rethought?

Norman Birnbaum, Paul Buhle and Jeffrey C. Isaac ▪ Winter 2003

Jeffrey C. Isaac’s review of Frances Stoner Saunders’s The Cultural Cold War (“Rethinking the Cultural Cold War,” Summer 2002) argues, in effect, that the end justifies the means. The end was the cause of liberal anticommunism. The means was the …

Remembering H.L. Mitchell

Paul Buhle ▪ Spring 1990

The New York Times missed Mitch’s death on August 1, 1989 and so did nearly all the liberal and left publications that share the interracial ideals of the old Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU). He died, as he lived, on …