Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?
- Comics, Comics Academe, Essays
- September 12, 2014
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DC Comics Just Made a Statement that Could Significantly Change the Comics Industry1
Since the coronavirus crisis began, the comics industry has been in a scary place. With publishers doing their best to keep operations running smoothly using remote and telecommuting processes, the often reclusive work of comic book creators seems like it should be one of the few safe and stable jobs to have during this time.
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Patreon Exclusive: Subterranean Mutant Semiotics: Morlocks, X-Factor, and the Privilege of Passing0
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Content Warning: This essay includes discussions of transphobia, anti-trans violence, trans-medicalism and passing.
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Depictions of Fascism and Missteps of the Metaphor in X-Men: Red2
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- March 13, 2020
This essay includes discussions of fascism, the alt-right, Charlottesville, the death of Heather Heyer, The Third Reich, Nazi ideology, and xenophobia.
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My Sex-Positive, Feminist Graphic Novel, Tracy Queen, is Being Shadow Banned2
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- March 9, 2020
You may have heard whispers about shadow banning—that thing social media platform do where they block or partly block users and/or their content in a sneaky way so that, as Wikipedia puts it, “it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned.” The practice seems to have started as a
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The Magik of New Mutants’ Illyana Rasputin0
When an image of a horned demonic girl in armor crossed my Twitter timeline in 2018, I felt drawn to her. Illyana Rasputin looks like an untamed demon and a battle hardened human. In the recent trailer for the New Mutants film, I feel like we see a glimpse of both demon and human in
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Pretty Deadly, Pretty Cautious1
I have loved Pretty Deadly since I first heard about it. The title, the creators, and the ideas fit everything I wanted from a new creator-owned series in 2014. And it has delivered. The Shrike, The Bear, and The Rat are awesome tales, combining the best parts of comics as a storytelling media. A wonderful
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"Bismuth" and Steven Universe's Racial Coding Problem
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- August 30, 2016
