In 1868, Zadoc Dederick of Newark, New Jersey built a robotic man wearing a top hat to pull carriages. His creation became known as “the Newark Steam Man,” and its inventor hoped to build an army of ...

The Steam Man combines genre elements from steampunk, science-fiction, Westerns, and horror in a premise so wild that it could only be told in comics. In order to fend off Martian invaders in the Old ...

These days there’s a popular fashion or “cosplay” fad known a “Steampunk.” Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in ...