A New York court of appeals ruled in August that Donald Trump’s penalty for multiple counts of fraud violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against “excessive fines.” Trump responded by tweeti…| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
2 posts published by Chris Gavaler during September 2025| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has been polling well behind his Democratic challenger Jay Jones. But Miyares knows that anti-trans posturing can win elections for Republicans. So two and a…| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
The first book of comics scholarship I ever read was Joseph Witek’s 1989 Comic Books as History, when it came out four years before Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and five before …| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
A version of this commentary ran in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last Tuesday as “editor’s pick” and “top story.” When Donald Trump took office, he swore to “preserve, …| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
Political cartoonists make their living on visual metaphors. How many different ways can you draw Donald Trump destroying the document he swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend? Let’s…| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
My article “The Rise and Fall of Fascist Superheroes” was published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics in November 2015 — a year before Donald Trump was first elected. I&…| The Patron Saint of Superheroes
