The multi faceted Zack Kruse is a comic historian, PHD student, comic writer, columnist, convention organizer and podcaster. His inquisitive mind plumbs the depth of the medium, as seen in his recent columns for the "Eleven O'Clock Comics" blog, and on the "Pictures within Pictures" podcast with cohosts Ben Tiede and Will Pfeiffer. Together we talk about his ongoing research into the life and art of Steve Ditko, the political climate and philosophies that produce crime comics of the 40s, film noir, cosmopolitics and academia, and other lighter topics!

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