Our Comics Studies at UNT community has recently been joined by a new addition: a newly-created, registered student-organization devoted to making and sharing comics! We’re excited to have these student creators join our already-active community of scholars, teachers, students, and creators of comics at UNT. Read more below about their work.
Welcome back, everyone, to the Fall 2024 semester and a new year of school, work, and Comics Studies at UNT! We’ve got lots of updates on our Comics Studies initiative and other comics-related events and activities happening at UNT.
Review by Jennifer Gómez Menjívar The Echo (2024) series was released on January 9, 2024, on Disney+ and Hulu, setting a major streaming record despite the show’s TV-MA rating. Featuring established characters like the Kingpin and Daredevil only briefly, the series instead focuses on the titular character and takes viewers to her homeland. [Contains spoilers.]
Please join us for an upcoming Artist’s Talk: Christopher Sperandio, “Teaching Comics Making: The Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop” Willis Library, 250H, Monday, November 13, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. This talk is free and open to the public.
Please join us on Wednesday, November 8, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., in Willis Library 130, for an “Into the Archieverse” Research Day!
At the end of July 2023, UNT hosted the annual Comics Studies Society Conference at the UNT Gateway Center. The conference included over 150 registered attendees, online and in-person, plus over a dozen artists, publishers, and libraries represented in the Artist’s Alley, which was open to the public. The conference was organized and hosted… Read more »
As of this Summer 2023, “Comics Studies” is now an official subject area in the UNT Libraries Public Services division, and John Martin has been designated as the subject librarian for comics studies. In addition to providing research, reference, and instructional support for patrons and courses at UNT, subject librarians help with collection development,… Read more »
Registration is now open for the 2023 Comics Studies Society Conference, “Comics on the Margins,” coming to UNT this summer (July 27-29, 2023) at the Gateway Center https://comicsstudies.org/2023-conference/
We’re excited to share the news that the 2023 Comics Studies Society Annual Conference, “Comics on the Margins“, is coming to the University of North Texas, July 27-29, 2023!
Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh’s graphic novel Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (2019) reintroduces the DC comics antiheroine Harley Quinn as a teenage girl who arrives in Gotham after a childhood full of poverty, familial strife, and an already long rap sheet. As she begins to find her place in the world and discover more about… Read more »
