Josh Hamman

“You can be anything you want”. We have all heard this before. It’s thrown around at kids when they are growing up, adults when we are in school, and a myriad of other places, usually not really sincere, but as a side way to deflect something. I have seen first hand, that this is absolutely true.

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Josh Hamman

Most Heroes in the comic world also find themselves prefixed with the word ‘Super’. What if you aren’t super? What if you just do what you can because you should?

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Josh Hamman

Comic books provide an escapism from reality, where by simply ingesting their panels and pages, we get to become Heroes. Does any of this carry over? Why does ‘Kick-Ass’ still not really exist?
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Josh Hamman

Photographer Adam Jay recently had a run in with Facebook, being asked to pull down some ‘questionable’ images. This sparked a controversy of what is allowed by Facebook.
Adam was kind enough to answer some questions for us.

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Josh Hamman

Crossovers are so 2011. Gender Crossovers are the new wave in comics.
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Josh Hamman

Print is dead. Long Live Print.
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Josh Hamman

A new century for comic books means a new century for comic book ads. The 2000s saw several advances in printing technologies as well as paper quality in comics. This opened the door for fancier and glossier ads to fill the spaces between story pages.
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Josh Hamman

The 1970s gave us Star Wars, The Godfather, disco, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiggle_television, Geoff Johns, watergate as well as a new era of comic books. What kind of amazing ads were contained within the pages of these wonders?
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Josh Hamman

X-Ray specs, log cabins, 204 soldiers and more were promised to the avid reader. Comic books of the 1960s brought some fantastic ads with even more fantastic promises.

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Josh Hamman

As the ComicBloc explores comics through the last 6 decades, I thought I would take a look at the non-story content of these comics; the ads.

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