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Is it Calvin and Hobbes or an issue of Joe Hill's Locke and Key comic? Even better: It's both.

Fearful symmetry
In Joe Hill's Keys to the Kingdom , a bloodthirsty wolf pack's feeding frenzy filtered through the youthful lens of Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic strip can only be described as disturbing. But it's these details that make the comic, which was dedicated to Watterson, such a satisfying read.
By ANDREW STEINBEISER | August 18, 2010

Cowboy junkie

In his paintings and music, Jon Langford resurrects and pays respect to a vanished American past
England in the mid-’80s, gray and depressed by Thatcherism and the Smiths, wasn’t a place folks typically dressed to the nines in ten-gallon hats, bolo ties, and Nudie shirts. But such were the sartorial choices made those days by the members of the Mekons.
By MIKE MILIARD | April 08, 2010

Genre bender

Joe Hill’s scary stories reflect our worst fears
At a time when real-life events seem both horrifying and surreal, 20th Century Ghosts raises the question: Who needs monsters, when we have our messed-up minds, to contend with?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 02, 2008

Reading roundup

Autumn’s authors about town
This fall’s regional literary scene will see abstinence and desire, ghosts and dykes, convicts and Christians, toxic water bottles and yummy food.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | September 10, 2008

My Ellen Willis

Making sense of a woman who was always two or three steps ahead of the Zeitgeist
When I was a queer teenager in suburban New Jersey in the early 1960s, I decided that I wanted to be Susan Sontag.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | November 30, 2006

The trials of Bernard Baran

Twenty years ago, a young gay man was convicted of multiple counts of molestation. There is good reason to believe he is innocent.
This story originally appeared in the June 18, 2004 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By DORI BERMAN, CARRIE LOCK, RICHARD RAINEY, AND LINDSAY TAUB | July 12, 2006