Here’s a modest proposal to get a bigger conversation started about how we peer review and process research comics through the academic publishing cycle. I’m so pleased to have this article published with the The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics […]
Article: Framing the Embodied Journalist
I’m very happy to share this recent collaboration with Stuart Medley – we took a look at some current practices in comics journalism and came up with this research comic! Best of all, the article is open access! Framing the […]
Article: The Graphic “I” in Research Comics
I am incredibly excited to be included in this issue of Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, alongside great studies by Manuela Di Franco (From Funnies to Adventures: Translation, Censorship, and Adaptation of American Comics in Fascist Italy), […]
Chapter: The notorious (feminist?) chainmail bikini
A new chapter just got published! “Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers”, in 21st Century Medievalisms: Between the Global and Individual, edited by Karl Christian Alvestad (2023). Here’s a short excerpt: In cosplay, by avoiding the “new” Red […]
Article: Nuns in Action – A Graphic Investigation into a Graphic Issue
A graphic article in Comics Grid – read it online here and there’s also a link to download the pdf. This article in comics form looks at the phenomenon of nun characters appearing in contemporary comics as a unified trope. […]
Article: Permission for Brutality
First post on the new website! Is representation in comics a net positive no matter what? There have been several comics series which uplift female and gender diverse characters, even championing queer love and …all wrapped up in medievalist fantasy! […]