Friday, October 31, 2014

CRIMES BY WOMEN: The Comic Book

From my new piece on CRIMES BY WOMEN: 
Crimes By Women was a ten cent comic book published by the Fox Features Syndicate from June of 1948 to August of 1951. It was an anthology series that showcased a series of femme fatales, gun molls and full-tilt psychopaths engaged in all manner of sexual seduction and wanton violence. It was, in a word, trash.
Trash has its appeal, though, and—more importantly—it can tell us something about the shifting currents of a culture...
To read the rest of the piece, head on over to Criminal Element.

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