Henry Barajas is the co-creator, writer and letterer for El Loco and Captain Unikorn. He has also written and lettered short stories for two successful Kickstarter projects: Unite and Take Over: Stories inspired by The Smiths and Break The Walls: Comic Stories inspired by The Pixies. Barajas is a stand up comedian at Laffs Comedy Cafe and at comic book conventions across the country. He was the online editor of the Tucson Weekly, former Arizona Daily Star writer/news assistant and was nominated for the Shel Dorf Blogger of the Year award for his work at The Beat. Now he's the EIC of the Tucson Sleeper.
After five friends from New York’s fashion world are granted superpowers by a mysterious ancient deity, they become the House of Slay! Standing together to defeat the ruthless Max Huxley, their victory was only the first step to a brave new world. This season, all new heroes and all new villains arise, bringing with them new challenges–and new possibilities! Now, with five bold and diverse stories, the adventures of the House of Slay are only just beginning.
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“In the 1950s the portrayal of a Black man in a position of authority and a discussion of racism in a comic was at the centre of a battle between Entertaining Comics editor William Gaines and the Comics Code Authority, which had been set up in 1954 to self regulate the content of US comics amid fears they were a corrupting influence on youth. Gaines fought frequently with the CCA in an attempt to keep his magazines free from censorship.
The particular example noted by comics historian Digby Diehl, Gaines threatened Judge Charles Murphy, the Comics Code Administrator, with a lawsuit when Murphy ordered EC to alter the science-fiction story “Judgment Day”, in Incredible Science Fiction #33 (Feb. 1956).
The story depicted a human astronaut, a representative of the Galactic Republic, visiting the planet Cybrinia inhabited by robots. He finds the robots divided into functionally identical orange and blue races, one of which has fewer rights and privileges than the other. The astronaut decides that due to the robots’ bigotry, the Galactic Republic should not admit the planet. In the final panel, he removes his helmet, revealing himself to be a black man.
Murphy demanded, without any authority in the Code, that the black astronaut had to be removed.
Feldstein, interviewed for the book Tales of Terror: The EC Companion, reiterated his recollection of Murphy making the request:
So he said it can’t be a Black [person]. So I said, ‘For God’s sakes, Judge Murphy, that’s the whole point of the Goddamn story!’ So he said, ‘No, it can’t be a Black’.
Bill [Gaines] just called him up [later] and raised the roof, and finally they said, ‘Well, you gotta take the perspiration off’. I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, 'F**k you’, and he hung up.
I love the serendipity of this so much. I just posted that picture of Buckley, waiting on a cup of coffee that will never come, and then scrolled to catch up and caught this. How perfect is that.
Maybe this already exists (I should check honestly) but I thought it could be cool to do a Bayside pod where we go through record by record. Maybe play a few songs from each, talk about the evolution of the band etc. Dont want to completely rip anyone off but if anyone wants in…hit me up.
a little comic about trauma with the meta ending nobody asked for
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