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The Symposium on Comic Arts: At the Intersections of Comics Education and Industry

March 4, 2022

Timing is everything, and for this Comics Academe, I wanted to share another type of Comics Academe submission: Con Diaries. Just like our WWAC con diaries, Comics Academe con diaries are a way for contributors to share their experiences when attending conventions that are organized by academic ...

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Comics Academe Review: ‘Supersex’ Puts the Sex Back into Comics Scholarship

January 28, 2022

Superhero bodies and superhero sexuality are frequent talking points. As on-screen bodies increase muscle, with actors bulking themselves to unattainably immense proportions, the superhero sex drive remains virtually non-existent. It often appears redundant and a contradiction, mainly because ...

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A Farewell to Comics Academe Editor Adrienne Resha

November 27, 2021

This is a very special essay for Comics Academe, and a formal announcement, of sorts.

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Humour in Times of Crisis: How Satire Can Lead to Self-Reflection and Social Action

October 29, 2021

Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal was introduced to me in March of 2020 by a highly valued friend and mentor, just as the world was locking down for the first time. It has become my comfort read throughout this wild journey we have been on in the past year as the post-apocalyptic collection of ...

Comics Academe, Interviews

Interview: Javier Olivares on Las Meninas

August 27, 2021

After reading Las Meninas (translated as The Ladies-In-Waiting and published by Fantagraphics) by Santiago García and Javier Olivares, which I wrote about last year, I knew that I had to try and get an interview with one of the creators of the text to find out how they came up with the idea ...

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(A)Round Robin – An Interview with Lauren O’Connor

July 30, 2021

As a Robin fan (Tim Drake is the best Robin I will not be taking questions at this time), I was very excited to hear about Robin and the Making of American Adolescence, a new book that will be released August 13, 2021 as part of the Comics Culture series being published at Rutgers University ...

Comics Academe, Con Diaries, Events

Comic-Con@Home Day One Roundup: Graphic Novels and Lovecraft Country in the Classroom

July 23, 2021

As always, the first big day of Comic-Con is dedicated to all things educational. I checked out two panels on July 22: LitX’s Graphic Novels are the New Textbooks and GeekED Rewind 20-21: The True American Horror of Lovecraft Country.

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Rereading Bitch Planet in 2021: Basic Bitches & Blackface

June 25, 2021

I write this on what is the traditional land of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nations. In the first part of this series, I examined the main narrative of Bitch Planet through a critical race theory framework. Critical race theory is a theoretical framework developed by mostly Black ...

Comics Academe, Essays

REVIEW: Women in Marvel Films: They Don’t Know Their Value Yet

May 28, 2021

Women in Marvel Films answers the question “why aren’t there more superheroines on our screens?” Especially when a comics giant like Marvel has successfully churned out so many films featuring male heroes. And when we do get women characters, what kind of role do they play? What agency do they ...

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Teaching Comics with Comics: On Meghan Parker’s Teaching Artfully

April 23, 2021

I first heard of Teaching Artfully in the second year of my doctoral program. I was just starting to grapple with the idea of drawing my dissertation as a comic and had reached out to Nick Sousanis, the author of Unflattening and the only person who I knew had drawn their dissertation. ...

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The Symposium on Comic Arts: At the Intersections of Comics Education and Industry

Comics Academe Review: ‘Supersex’ Puts the Sex Back into Comics Scholarship

A Farewell to Comics Academe Editor Adrienne Resha

Humour in Times of Crisis: How Satire Can Lead to Self-Reflection and Social Action

Interview: Javier Olivares on Las Meninas

(A)Round Robin – An Interview with Lauren O’Connor

Comic-Con@Home Day One Roundup: Graphic Novels and Lovecraft Country in the Classroom

Rereading Bitch Planet in 2021: Basic Bitches & Blackface

REVIEW: Women in Marvel Films: They Don’t Know Their Value Yet

Teaching Comics with Comics: On Meghan Parker’s Teaching Artfully

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