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Sam Thielman

Sam Thielman covered the business of technology for Guardian US

February 2022

  • A still from Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series.

    ‘The history of fantasy is racialized’: Lord of the Rings series sparks debate over race

    Introduction of characters of color into Tolkien’s fantasy world has some fans complaining but as others point out, it’s not less authentic to cast Black actors

August 2021

  • THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER<br>(L-R): Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) in Marvel Studios’ THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER exclusively on Disney+. Photo by Chuck Zlotnick. ©Marvel Studios 2020. All Rights Reserved.

    Marvel and DC face backlash over pay: ‘They sent a thank you note and $5,000 – the movie made $1bn’

    As the comics giants make billions from their storylines and characters, writers and artists are speaking out about their struggles for fair payment

October 2020

  • Matt Furie, pictured while filming Feels Good Man

    Matt Furie on life after Pepe the Frog: 'You have to lead by example'

  • David Ajala as Book and Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham.

    TV review
    Star Trek: Discovery season three review – its most thoughtful series yet

July 2020

  • Warren Ellis, pictured in 2014.

    Women speak out about Warren Ellis: 'Full and informed consent was impossible'

    Scores of women are publishing details of their relationships with the Transmetropolitan writer, who they say offered mentorship in exchange for sexual contact. But they don’t want him cancelled - they want a conversation

June 2020

  • still from the Netflix adaptation of Marvel’s The Punisher.

    How do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull? Make it a Black Lives Matter symbol

    Gerry Conway, co-creator of the popular Marvel outlaw, has been appalled to see his iconography appropriated by white supremacists - and aims to turn the tables

April 2020

  • Coronavirus Outbreak in Bloomington, US<br>BLOOMINGTON, UNITED STATES - MARCH 24, 2020: Matt Traughber, an owner of the Vintage Phoenix comic bookstore, packs comics to distribute to subscribers a day early (new comics are typically released Wednesdays) during the Covid-19-Coronavirus national emergency in Bloomington, The shop will close entirely Wednesday after Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb issued an order that all non-essential businesses close, and non-essential workers stay home.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire/ Barcroft Studios / Future Publishing (Photo credit should read Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

    ‘This is beyond the Great Depression’: will comic books survive coronavirus?

    As Marvel cuts staff and publishers stop selling new titles, artists, shop owners and writers worry for the future of an industry worth billions

December 2019

  • Beautiful, candy-coloured sci-fi … Patience by Daniel Clowes.

    Sandman to Hark! A Vagrant: the best comics of the decade

  • This image released by HBO shows Regina King in a scene from “Watchmen,” premiering on Oct. 20. (Mark Hill/HBO via AP)

    Watchmen is by far the best adaptation of the comic – but should fans watch it?

July 2019

  • Deconstruction of the superhero myth … Alan Moore.

    Goodbye, Alan Moore: the king of comics bows out

    The pioneer of serious superheroes – who is retiring – has transformed the genre over 40 years of rebellious invention

January 2019

  • Miracleman by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham The Silver Age Vol 1 1

    Comics and graphic novels of 2019: from Miracleman to Scrooge McDuck

    Hotly anticipated titles from stars such as Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore will be joined by fresh work from new talents including Julie Delport and Emily Carroll

April 2018

  • Frank Miller

    Frank Miller: 'I wasn't thinking clearly when I said those things'

    After stirring up outrage lambasting Muslims and Wall Street protesters, The Dark Knight Returns creator has been awol from the comics world. He discusses the mentor who got him back on his feet, what he thinks of Donald Trump, and his new prequel to 300

January 2018

  • Knocking it out of the park ... an image from the second volume of Wonder Woman: Earth One.

    2018 the year ahead
    2018 in comics: Wonder Woman, Poochytown and goodbye Alan Moore

    For graphic novel fans, this year is full of treats: more Batman and Spider-Man, rumours of a Ta-Nehisi Coates take on Captain America, some fresh faces – and big farewells to some old ones

November 2017

  • 1<br>Marvel's The Punisher - Season 1
Jon Bernthal

    The Punisher: was there ever a right time for Netflix's gun-toting vigilante show?

    The streaming giant’s latest Marvel series is an ultra-violent take on a difficult character, championed by neo-Nazis, that feels needlessly nasty in the current climate

October 2017

  • Edinburgh International Book Festival<br>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 12: Chris Ware, an American comic book artist and cartoonist, appears at a photocall prior to an event at the 30th Edinburgh International Book Festival, on August 12, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Edinburgh International Book Festival is the worlds largest annual literary event, and takes place in the city which became a UNESCO City of Literature in 2004. (Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images)

    Chris Ware: 'Does the world really need another tome about an artist?'

    The celebrated New Yorker cartoonist on his intricate graphic memoir Monograph, his love for Peanuts and why his grandmother is his favourite storyteller

September 2017

  • Star Trek: Discovery

    Star Trek: Discovery review – a darker vision boldly goes into the future

    The latest addition to the Star Trek canon has found a bona fide star in Sonequa Martin-Green, but the world around her lacks the deep space to succeed
  • The Cast Of Futurama TM &amp; Fox and its related entities.

    The future is radio: why fan favorite Futurama moved to audio-only

    The much-loved animated comedy has been briefly reincarnated as an old-fashioned radio play and showrunner David X Cohen talks about what the future of the future might be
  • Bojack Horseman Season 4 - Netflix press publicity

    In the golden age of TV, the existential-animation is king

    From the critically lauded time traveling of Rick and Morty to the antics of a Hollywood horse, animation is the place to find TV that Sartre might’ve liked

July 2017

  • Detail from cover art for the graphic novel Songy of Paradise by Gary Panter.

    Gary Panter: the cartoonist who took a trip to hell and back

    Dante and Milton are recast through the eyes of a redneck Jesus in Gary Panter’s latest graphic novel. He opens up about the nightmare hallucinations and comic-book disasters that led him there

April 2017

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    Happy birthd'oh!: The Simpsons celebrates 30 years of cultural milestones

    As the animated hit comedy reaches its 30th birthday, a look back on some of the key moments throughout its run
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