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.]
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/
A member of our Comics Studies @UNT community, Dr. Joanna Davis-McElligatt, recently did a podcast for UNT Pod about diversity & inclusion in comics. She talks about the importance of recent efforts by comics creators to bring more diverse perspectives, characters, and stories into the mainstream comics industry, popular culture, and the classroom. See more… Read more »
Our Comics Studies Reading Group had a few more thoughts to share about Captain Marvel… [Warning Spoilers for Captain Marvel and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Season Five)]
by Dr. Samantha Langsdale SPOILERS: the following post DOES contain spoilers, so if you prefer not to have various plot points of the film revealed, read no further. For those of us who enjoy superhero films, the last couple of years have been game changing. True, Hollywood has been producing superheroic blockbusters for decades, but… Read more »
I thought I’d share some of the recent acquisitions of comics studies books that we’ve recieved here at the UNT Libraries. This list doesn’t include the many new graphic novels that we’ve recently added as part of our graphic novel collection enhancement, which you’ll hear more about soon. These are just a few of the… Read more »
At the Perspectives on Graphic Medicine panel discussion, I presented some preliminary research I’ve been doing on the visual culture of the early years of the AIDS epidemic, exploring how the HIV positive body is reproduced and represented in ephemera and popular culture. In my talk, I introduced Captain Condom, a serial comic that appeared in AIDS zine Diseased… Read more »
