Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?
- Comics, Comics Academe, Essays
- September 12, 2014
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Community Spaces, Alternative Marketplaces: Indie Comics and Culture0
- Comics Academe, Essays
- May 29, 2020
Over the last decade, the growth of independent, “indie,” or creator-owned comics has broadened the comic book landscape and birthed a new wave of creators who aren’t adhering to conventional standards. The demand for non-superhero material from publishers outside of the Big Two (Marvel and DC) has empowered creators to carve out their own space
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Comics Culture: Visiting a Comic Book Store in Russia0
Back in the Before Times when people could still go outside and interact with each other in close proximity, I went to Russia to visit my relatives, whom I haven’t seen in several years. From December 2018 to early January 2019, I stayed at my aunt and cousin’s apartment in the southwest end of Moscow,
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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Happily Ever After? A Fables Retrospective0
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- May 1, 2020
In 2002, a comic that I would come to love deeply started coming out. It was a story of fairy-tale characters trying to live in the ‘real world’, and built on how deeply flawed all of these characters tended to be. I was still years away from moving past superhero comics, I had yet to
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Remembering Charlee Jacob: Cities and Guises0
- Bookmarked, Essays
- April 7, 2020
Charlee Jacob’s novella “Up, Out of Cities that Blow Hot and Cold” – which debuted in the 2000 collection of the same name before being reissued as a standalone book – is a story that takes the concept of urban decay literally. All around the world, cities are being hit by disasters: the Eiffel Tower
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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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"Bismuth" and Steven Universe's Racial Coding Problem
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- August 30, 2016
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Remembering Charlee Jacob: Cities and Guises
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