Detail from Jason and Kathryn's story
Comics are great, but all too often they are about silly adventures and muscular men in impossible costumes fighting a series of increasingly stunt-cast villains. I don’t care how much someone’s liberal degree thesis says that the Green Goblin is in fact an allegory to Sinn Fein or whatever, Spiderman is basically fighting to get laid. That’s why the new book involving the charity-funded magazine Ctrl.Alt.Shift and some of the world’s best known comic artists, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption, is a nice break. Well, not nice, because it’s depressing and will make you wish you had kept your head buried in the illustrated sand of big tits and Lycra thighs. Anyway, we spoke to Jason Masters and Kathryn White, who created one of the many stories in the book (theirs focuses on ethnic violence in South Africa). Read more »
