Year-End Meta 2020: Additions, Corrections, Updates & Announcements
Cleaning up loose ends from the last year and making some announcements about the next.
The (re)Collection Agency #13: A Conversation with Anna Peppard
Discussing the intersection of collecting and desire, superhero sex, and avoiding spoiler aversion with Dr. Anna Peppard.
Days of Future Imperfect Past: The 2019 Year-End Meta Post
A look at the past year, comics collecting present, and a possible future for The Middle Spaces
The (re)Collection Agency #10: A Conversation with Margaret Galvan
In the 10th installment of our series of talks with comics scholars and teachers, we talk to Dr. Margaret Galvan about comics archives, keeping a spreadsheet of a comics collection, and the importance of research into grassroots periodicals in the study of queer comics.
Like a Phoenix: On Selective Completion & Re-Collecting X-Men
Taking the occasion of our 5th anniversary to explore the re-acquiring of X-Men comics in that same time period.
The (re)Collection Agency #7: A Conversation with Brannon Costello
The seventh in our series of conversations with comics scholars. Dr. Brannon Costello discusses his new book on Howard Chaykin, serial monomania, and how relatively radical stuff can happen in a What If? comic.
Mo’ Meta News: How Collecting Shapes The Middle Spaces
As the year ends, let’s look to 2018 and beyond by considering how comic book collecting and critical nostalgia shape The Middle Spaces blog.
The (re)Collection Agency #3: A Conversation with Leah Misemer
The third in our series of talks with comics scholars; this time we talk letters columns, graphic medicine, and keeping comics studies fun with Dr. Leah Misemer.
On Collecting Comics & Critical Nostalgia
Identity is a constant retcon.
XX-Men: The Failures of Brian Wood’s All-Woman X-Team
X-Men’s record of including women is still only good in relation to the rest of superhero comics.
