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Academics on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Nicholas Yanes — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 18:00:31 +0000

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" title="Academics on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" style="float:left;" />Released on December 14, 2018, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a movie that shouldn’t exist. Superhero movies have been dominated by live action adaptations for well over a decade, while animated comic book movies have… [more]

Breaking Panels, Breaking Time: Examples of the Connection Between Panel Construction and Narrative Time

Mikayla J. Laird — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:00:17 +0000

In Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, he makes the comment, “To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths”. An incredibly evocative piece of language, and very poetic in itself. But… [more]

Why We Should Roll Our Eyes at Bill Maher

Rick Horner — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:20:55 +0000

As a group, we comic book fans have certainly had to take a lot of crap over the decades. Our interests have been belittled, derided, and even threatened with government sanction. These days however, comic… [more]

Julian Chambliss Discusses MSU’s Comics Forum and Commitment to Pop Culture Studies

Nicholas Yanes — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:00:09 +0000

Leaving the peninsula of Florida for the peninsula of Michigan, Dr. Julian Chambliss is now a professor in Michigan State University’s Department of English. As a scholar of comic books and popular culture, Chambliss will… [more]

Shelley Barba and Joy Perrin on The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain

Nicholas Yanes — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:36:41 +0000

The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain" title="Shelley Barba and Joy Perrin on The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain" style="float:left;" />Harley Quinn first appeared in a 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series. With no previous history in Batman’s lore, Quinn could have just been another random character created for an animated series. However, she… [more]

Professors Joanna Page and Edward King Discuss the Book Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America

Nicholas Yanes — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:20:30 +0000

Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America" title="Professors Joanna Page and Edward King Discuss the Book Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America" style="float:left;" />Though the academic study of comic books and graphic novels is exploding in popularity, a growing concern is that so much of this research centers on content from North America, Western Europe, and Japan. With… [more]

Academics Discuss their Book Marvel Comics into Film and the Secret Origins of the MCU

Nicholas Yanes — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:33:10 +0000

Marvel Comics into Film and the Secret Origins of the MCU" title="Academics Discuss their Book Marvel Comics into Film and the Secret Origins of the MCU" style="float:left;" />Matthew J. McEniry is an assistant metadata librarian at Texas Tech University and describes digital manuscripts for online discovery. Robert Moses Peaslee is an associate professor and chair of Journalism and Electronic Media at the… [more]

It’s Long Past Time to Retire the Term “Graphic Novel”

Ian Dawe — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:00:29 +0000

In comics, we’re always struggling with titles and definition. At least, some of us struggle with these things when conversing with people outside the field of comics studies. For everyone I’ve ever met who is… [more]

Andy Warhol: A Comics Creator?

Ian Dawe — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 21:30:36 +0000

Andy Warhol’s name is forever linked to a thoroughly modern style of artistic expression, emerging at a very significant time in the history of western culture. Mechanical replication, repetition and bold, vivid colours were hallmarks… [more]

Comics and Literacy: Still Struggling

Ian Dawe — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:00:37 +0000

I recently encountered some (sadly) all-too-familiar anti-comics sentiment, and alas I think it reflects an attitude in society that has yet to pass away. When I am engaged to teach students, particularly students trying to… [more]

Five Reasons Why Comics Scholarship is Important

Stuart Warren — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:00:07 +0000

Before getting into comics, I had no idea where to start, or how to approach comics as a body of work. Over the course of several decades comics have diversified into a multi-headed beast. There… [more]

Comics Studies Making More Inroads into Academia

Ian Dawe — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 03:30:34 +0000

It was heartening to many people in the field of comics studies to see that, this week, the University of Oregon received a grant from a private donor to create a $200,000 endowment for their… [more]