Comics Academe: How Do You Teach Comics?
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- September 12, 2014
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Ladies-in-Waiting (Las meninas) Is a Docu-Drama about Murder, Ambition, Deceit, and Palace Intrigue0
- Comics Academe, Essays, Indie & Small Press, Reviews
- December 20, 2019
As a Spanish professor with an affinity for comics and graphic novels, I am known to make time to peruse the comic book stores whenever I get to Spain. But I also have a special affinity for the great masters of art, and so I also make sure I have time to visit El Prado
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Batwoman’s Julia Pennyworth Casting is All Wrong0
- Television and Film, Essays
- December 10, 2019
In episode seven of Batwoman, ‘Tell Me The Truth,’ viewers were introduced to Julia Pennyworth (Christina Wolfe), Kate Kane’s (Ruby Rose) mentor and Alfred Pennyworth’s daughter.
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The Performative Horniness of Dawn of X0
Adjoining bedrooms. That was all it took for the X-Men’s most infamous love triangle to suddenly become a canon poly triad in the minds of fans everywhere. Elsewhere in the same issue, we bore witness to Corsair’s partner hitting on Rachel Summers, his granddaughter, another character generally accepted as queer despite only the most subtextual
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Comics and Kink: Greg Land and the (Sexy) Digital Art Debate0
- After Dark, Essays
- November 29, 2019
Happy holidays, dear readers! I hope you’re enjoying Black Friday, or finally dredging up your social willpower (and finances) for the upcoming Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa cycle. In honor of this uniquely busy period in our lives, I’ve decided to take pity on you and provide an easy, breezy, lightly sexy read for you to enjoy.
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The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 11: Urban Fantasies1
- Bookmarked, Essays, Television and Film
- November 28, 2019
The period following the publication of Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire saw vampire fiction entrench itself not as a subgenre of horror, but as a substantial body of fiction in its own right. Author David J. Schow would look back on this state of affairs in his 2018 collection DJStories: You know how zombie-flavoured
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Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen is Comics’ The Good Place0
- Interviews, Essays
- November 20, 2019
I heard people rave about The Good Place for years before I actually watched the show, mostly because I don’t consider myself to be a sitcom person. I then I read Sam Anderson’s article in The New York Times, “What Makes ‘The Good Place’ so Good?” which convinced me that there was something going on
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"Bismuth" and Steven Universe's Racial Coding Problem
- Essays
- August 30, 2016
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