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Review: Lessons from The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture

August 15, 2017

With an interdisciplinary approach to the portrayal of the "woman fantastic" in contemporary American media, this collection examines her appearance across comics, books, and television.

Comics, Comics Academe, Interviews

Superwomen, The Eisners, & Leia Organa’s PhD: A Conversation with Carolyn Cocca

August 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: One of my goals for Comics Academe is to promote the work of women working as academics and scholars in the field of Comics Studies. I reached out to Carolyn Cocca about her Eisner Award-winning book Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, and she generously agreed ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

Comics Academe: Levi-Strauss and Loki

May 31, 2017

Happy Summer, Sports Fans! My first leg of grad school is over! More importantly, final papers have been turned in, and a degree is in my hand! Fun Fact #1: One of my term papers was about reading American superhero comics as myth defined by Claude Levi-Strauss. Fun Fact #2: That’s our subject ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

“Real” Wonder Women? The United Nations, Feminism, and the Media

April 12, 2017

The rift between commercialism and feminism emerged in the debate over the appointment of Wonder Woman as Honorary Ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls. Last October, the UN announced that Wonder Woman would become the organization’s Honorary Ambassador for the empowerment of women ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Interviews

Comics Academe: Christine Hoff Kraemer on Graven Images

January 25, 2017

Rather than looking inward, I decided that for this Comics Academe, I’d like to talk to someone else in the field of comics. I keep saying that it’s important for scholars in “new” fields like comics to learn from each other and not lose collective knowledge, so I thought I would do as I say! ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Interviews

Interview: Sequentials, a New “Comics” Journal

December 22, 2016

As part of Comics Academe, one of the things I want to do is to promote what’s happening in academia and comics studies–especially when what’s happening is something that is innovative, or challenges what academic “scholarship” can be. When I first heard about ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

Comics Academe: Hellos and Hildebrand

November 29, 2016

Editors Note: I am pleased to introduce the first article by a new Comics Academe contributor, Tiffany Babb, who will be sharing with us the view from inside academia, and specifically, the how she tackles the common academic dilemma of how to study comics when your institutional program does ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Manga, Reviews

Labors of Love: A Review of Manga in America

September 21, 2016

Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics Casey Brienza Bloomsbury January 2016

Comics, Comics Academe, Roundtables

Comics Academe Roundtable: Teaching Bitch Planet

August 26, 2016

Since the publication of the first issue of Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro in December of 2014, many people, inside and outside of academia, have pointed to the comic, the related backmatter and essays, and even the community that has formed around it–as ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Essays

Whaleish Work in the Disciplines: Comics and Religion Swimming Around

August 11, 2016

The last time you heard from me—and it’s been a while—I was urging academics who love comics to find their peers and work with them. I took my own advice! I was delighted to be a part of the Comics and Sacred Texts Symposium at Haverford College. It was wonderful to collaborate with ...

Comics Academe

Review: Lessons from The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture

Superwomen, The Eisners, & Leia Organa’s PhD: A Conversation with Carolyn Cocca

Comics Academe: Levi-Strauss and Loki

“Real” Wonder Women? The United Nations, Feminism, and the Media

Comics Academe: Christine Hoff Kraemer on Graven Images

Interview: Sequentials, a New “Comics” Journal

Comics Academe: Hellos and Hildebrand

Labors of Love: A Review of Manga in America

Comics Academe Roundtable: Teaching Bitch Planet

Whaleish Work in the Disciplines: Comics and Religion Swimming Around

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