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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The History of Comic Book Characters in American Culture

"I am fascinated by the role that comic characters play in contemporary American culture," he said. "They have a very unusual and basic flexibility that allows to then create common vehicles through which we can explore sort of changing ideas and changing times" He added, 'It's very interesting to track those changes because they tell us what we value and who we are through the story of a single character'

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