Author Kevin Patrick

Kevin Patrick

Dr Kevin Patrick has written about Australian comic books, pulp novels, and media fandom for numerous journals, and was a contributing author to A Companion to the Australian Media (2014). He curated a major exhibition on Australian comics at the State Library of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) in 2006, and is the author of The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero (University of Iowa Press, 2017). He teaches media and communication studies at Fordham University, NY.

Dreamtime Mutants and Urban Vigilantes: Aboriginal Superheroes in American Comics

Kevin Patrick

December 2018

Cleverman and Australian Superheroes

The television series Cleverman has been hailed for its sympathetic and complex portrayal of Aboriginal people, as well as for its trenchant commentary on Australian society, seen through the lens of the superh...