by Matt Peters For Gold Key Comics, licensed content was a mainstay. An imprint of Western Publishing, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984, churning out an extensive catalog of comic adaptations of popular TV and movie properties from Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, Walt Disney Productions, and other entertainment companies. Aside from those comics, Gold Key had a smaller slate of original content, a less iconic lineup of science fiction, fantasy, adventure, suspense, and other genre fiction. A nearly forgotten comic from that slate was a medical drama titled City Surgeon (sometimes referred to as Blake Harper, City Surgeon, based… Read More
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Matt Peters Content advisory: sexual harassment, sexual assault, mass mortality events For Canadian writer and artist Kate Beaton, two things weighed heavily on her mind immediately after college. The first was the unsettling financial implications of her student loan debt. The second was the limited job opportunities that an art degree offered in the Atlantic provinces, where she had grown up and attended college. With few other choices, Beaton decided to head west to Alberta, hoping to find high-paying work in the petroleum industry—work that could help her get a head start on her debt. Beaton recounts… Read More
Breathers
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