Today on SOLRAD, Tynan Stewart's essay on MAUS NOW, edited by Hillary Chute, addresses the question, "Has MAUS's status as a timeless cultural monument in any way negated its original subversive power?"

In this wide-ranging essay, SOLRAD's publisher Alex Hoffman discusses the different aspects of Maus and comic's love-hate relationship with transgression (often for transgression's sake).

Today on SOLRAD, Angela M. Sanchez looks at animal allegories to discuss systems of oppression in Blacksad: Arctic Nation, Maus, and, especially, Paru Itagaki’s Beastars manga,