Amanda Rose, University of Florida Scholars have long been invested in better understanding how humans produce, collect, and spread knowledge throughout the digital world, as…
Kendall Hamby, University of Florida In both Brian Michael Bendis’ Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and its 2018 film adaptation, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, colors function as…
Fi Stewart-Taylor, University of Florida While I didn’t expect us to be in the middle of a blogging renaissance when I wrote my abstract for…
Katrina Martinez, New York University The July 2019 protests coupled with the continued aftershocks from both hurricanes ultimately reignited a number of questions surrounding the…
Jeremy M. Carnes, University of Central Florida Comics studies, much like any other area of study, is demarcated along nationalist and temporal frames. While, of…
Dina AlAwadhi, University College London For centuries, Orientalism has woven itself into the media we consume. In Hollywood, it has been present since the very…
Jessica Cynthia and Jacinta Pricilla Wibowo Abstract This paper will analyze how three graphic novels published during the Kids Comics Boom introduced concepts of gender…
Sarah Shermyen, University of Georgia I’d like to avoid generalizations around how women write comics, as if female-identifying comic creators were a rare breed that might…
Natasha Ochshorn, CUNY Graduate Center It is the summer of 2019. I am allowing myself to become excited for Watchmen; Damon Lindelof’s upcoming television sequel to Alan…
Laita Barrett, University of Florida It is no secret that Hollywood has a diversity problem. According to the UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report of 2020, only…