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A. David Lewis
A. David Lewis, Ph.D., has worked in the field of Comics Studies for the past twenty years and has lectured nationally on the subjects of Graphic Medicine, Graphic Religion, and literary theory pertaining to comics. He serves as a college educator in the Greater Boston area and writes the ongoing adventures of Kismet, Man of Fate, the world's first Muslim superhero. Dr. Lewis is the co-editor on several volumes of comics research and author of the Eisner Award-nominated American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife. In addition to a tenure on the Comics Studies Society Executive Board, he is also the President of the nonprofit Comics for Youth Refugees Incorporated Collective (CYRIC) and a founding member of Sacred and Sequential. Dr. Lewis can be found on Twitter as @adlewis or through his website www.captionbox.net.
BOOKS AND MOVIES BY A. DAVID LEWIS
 How to Analyze & Review Comics: A Handbook on Comics Criticism (contributor) |  Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide (contributor) |
MAGAZINE CONTENT BY A. DAVID LEWIS (6 TOTAL)
Excerpt from Sequart’s Book How to Analyze & Review Comics: Comics and Context: The Questions That Must Be Asked
The following is an excerpt from Sequart’s book How to Analyze & Review Comics. For more information, including purchase options, click HERE. You have a blindspot. More literally, you likely have two, given a pair… [more]
All Hail the Queen Malika (and the Princeless Princess)
It’s tempting to compare Malika: Warrior Queen from YouNeek Studios to Black Panther from Marvel Comics. Both feature a heroic leader, the inheritor of a royal legacy, attempting to bring security to their fictional African… [more]
We Are All Children of the Atom: Marvel’s X-Men Gold Controversy, the Qurʾān, and the Problem of Diversity
[Note: This article originally appeared on Mizan Pop on the 10th of April, 2017. Since its publication, Marvel has terminated Syaf’s contract.] The recent launch of the new comic series X-Men Gold has generated international controversy… [more]
Godshaper #1 from Boom! Studios Divinely Blurs the Lines
In some cases, the divide between religion and magic, between the divine and the supernatural, is a narrow one. In BOOM! Studios new series Godshaper, that distinction is blurred further with the addition to commerce.… [more]
Live Chat with Artist JT Waldman at Tufts University
This is the page for the live chat with JT Waldman, artist of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, the final graphic novel by autobiographical comics legend Harvey Pekar. The chat was recorded live… [more]
Seduction of the Insolent (or, Retraction of the Innocent)
Know thy enemy. It is a long-standing idiom and one that is well-practiced by mainstream comics, most specifically the super-hero genre.