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Book Review: The Ambiguities of European Comic Book Bikers by David Walton

Jason Wragg, PhD

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David Walton’s The Ambiguities of European Comic Book Bikers makes an important contribution to motorcycle studies by turning scholarly attention towards a previously overlooked cultural artefact: the European comic-book biker publications. This study demonstrates convincingly that these comics merit serious critical analysis as complex cultural texts that both reflect and shape motorcycling identities across Europe. Continue reading

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Film Review: The Taming of the Biker, Ad Nauseam

Sarah Hoiland

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The Bikeriders, which roared into theaters June 21 2024, is a film that seeks to depict “outlaw” biker culture for a popular audience immersing viewers in the world of the “Vandals” a Motorcycle Club” (MC), founded in the 1960s. The story is primarily told through Kathy’s (Jodie Comer) nasally Midwestern twang, as it is relayed to Danny Lyon (Mike Faist), a photographer. Continue reading