1001 Variations: Narrative Mutation & Marvel’s Exiles
New and different, but not all-new and all-different, adaptation and change in superhero comics as narrative mutation.,
Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part four)
Part Four in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.
Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part three)
Part Three in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.
Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics (part two)
Part Two in a four-part scholarly round table examining the intersections of sound and comics.
The (re)Collection Agency #11: A Conversation with Marc Singer
In the 11th installment of our series of talks with comics scholars and teachers, we talk with Dr. Marc Singer about his new book Breaking the Frames, the state of comics studies, and which is worse, recommending someone watch Aquaman or read Kingdom Come.
Closing the Comics-Gate: On Recognizing the Politics of Comics
Comicsgaters are wrong because comics have always been political, but those politics weren’t always as great as they are sometimes made out to be by comics’ defenders.
Brief Comic Book Reviews (Dec 19, 2018 to Jan 16, 2019)
Brief review of comics released between (mostly) December 19, 2018 to January 16 – including Runaways #16, Bitter Root #3, and Fantastic Four #5.
Kept in a Jar: Broomhilda and the Representation of Enslaved Women in Reginald Hudlin’s Django Unchained
Does the 2013 comic adaptation of Django Unchained’s inclusion of an unfilmed sequence provide insight into the figure of the black woman slave?
