This week, I dive into the history, copyright and personal relationship to Herge’s The Adventures of Tintin! This will be an ongoing series weekly that will highlight some amazing pop-culture icons t...

On Journaling

Tintin has always been a cherished character from my childhood. I want to explore what makes the series exceptional and why it remains a valuable intellectual property deserving of attention. The succ...

The BatMug #7

The man who ran Marvel Comics journals in silence. No music, no special occasion, only for his peace of mind.

Naoko Yamada’s film about a boy who bullied a deaf girl in elementary school, and his attempt to make amends years later, handles its subject with a specificity that most films about bullying avoid en...

Ari Folman’s animated documentary about his suppressed memories of the 1982 Lebanon War is unlike anything else in the medium.

Makoto Shinkai’s body-swap romance became the highest-grossing anime film of all time for a reason, and that reason is not the premise.