The Graduate Comics Organization at the University of Florida’s 17th annual conference centers its focus on “Comics in Community.” Comics are a particularly rich site…
Surangama Datta, University of Bristol In ‘Breaking Out’, a 1970 feminist rewriting of popular female comic characters, Little Lulu storms out of the boys’ club…
Brandon Murakami, University of Florida Perhaps unsurprising to anyone familiar with the shōnen genre (a “marketing demographic” that was aimed at boys aged roughly 10-18…
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…