Jul 20, 2021
In this episode, our Myth Takes miniseries concludes with a story that combines the mythic grandeur of America’s pastime with Jewish folklore—The Golem’s Mighty Swing by James Sturm, published by Drawn & Quarterly!
In the early 1920s, money problems force a traveling Jewish baseball team to agree to a promoter’s...
Jul 7, 2021
In this episode, an actual Greek myth gets retconned as Myth Takes, our miniseries on comics and mythology, rolls on with a discussion of three stories from the Sandman collection Fables & Reflections—specifically, Thermidor, The Song of Orpheus and Ramadan!
You may be familiar with the myth of Orpheus, the balladeer...