To quote Jill Gerber, “In an increasingly image-driven culture, it is important that we purposefully incorporate visual literacy into our curriculum and equip our students, not only to be better consumers of information, but also for them to effectively communicate to a global community.” Gerber is an award-winning, published author and longtime educator. In this…
Comics in the Spanish Literature Classroom
Teaching literature at a regional university in South Carolina can be a daunting task. As professors, we know that the success of a course is based, in part, on getting students to do the reading. When teaching Spanish literature, the language itself can be another factor that can put students off the reading. Now they…
Prism Stalker: A Primer on a Sordid Past
Content Warning: Generational/Historical Trauma I am not North American Indigenous. However, the least I can do as someone who lives on occupied land is to learn the history of, and about, the peoples who are Native to the North American Continent and advocate for others to learn more through my academic research on Native American boarding…
#LibraryConLive Was a Virtually Jam-Packed Event
When I first moved to my small town, I would have been shocked to find a comic book on the shelves of my local library. While the collection that exists now isn’t huge, or curated as efficiently as I’d like, the fact that there are graphic novels on those shelves is a big deal. There…
Previously in Comics: An Ever-Expanding Universe
Good morning. After a mostly quiet early week, the comics world punched things into overdrive over the weekend.
Review: Experiencing Comics Will Change the Way We Teach Comics
Experiencing Comics Written and edited by Rachelle Cruz Cognella 2019 I can say, with confidence, that there has never been a better time to be a comics studies scholar than now. The Comics Studies Society hosted its first annual conference this past summer, and the International Comic Arts Forum is getting ready to have its…
The Future is Female! An Interview with Lisa Yaszek
Lisa Yaszek, a professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, has been studying the role of women in science fiction history for years. This month, the Library of America will publish her most recent project, The Future is Female!, an edited collection of science fiction stories by American women published from the year 1928…
Before the Hulk was Green: Pop Culture Literacy in the Composition Classroom
(This article was adapted from a presentation given at the TYCA-Northeast Conference in Fall of 2012) What is this professor talking about? I teach at a community college, which means I teach a lot of introductory classes. I can assume I’ll be teaching several sections of Standard Freshman Composition every Fall, and Writing about Literature…
Underwater Preteen Princesses and Punk-Rock Rebels: Hope Nicholson’s Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen
The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History Hope Nicholson Quirk Books May 2, 2017
Look Harder: Choosing Comics for the Classroom
Editor’s Note: Comics Academe is back! This month’s Comics Academe is a feature article by guest writer Gina Brandolino, kicking off a summer series on teaching with comics. Check out some of our past articles about teaching with comics! Teaching Bitch Planet Roundtable Teaching Ms. Marvel – Part One Teaching Ms. Marvel – Part Two…
A Helluva Thing: Serialized Death in Black Bolt
Death doesn’t matter in comics. 90% of the time that I spend thinking about comics, I argue against this. But if people die all the time and then come back, death can’t matter.
The Pre-Human Avengers: Archaeology and Marvel’s Avengers of 1,000,000 BC
Marvel Legacy #1 Jason Aaron (Writer), Esad Ribić with Steve McNiven (Artists), Matthew Wilson (Colorist) Additional Artists: Chris Samnee; Russell Dauterman: Alex Maleev; Ed McGuinness; Stuart Immonen & Wade Von Grawbadger; Pepe Larraz; Jim Cheung; Daniel Acuña; Greg Land & Jay Leisten; Mike Deodato Jr. David Marquez Marvel Comics September 27, 2017 When I saw…