UNT Pod: Diversity & Inclusion in Comics

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Logo of UNT Pod site, features white letters on green background, with the "O" in Pod containing an old-fashioned radio microphone 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 »

Comics Studies Happenings, Fall 2019

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Cover of Monstrous Women in Comics Edited by Samantha Langsdale & Elizabeth Rae Coody This Fall has been a busy one for many of our Comics Studies Reading Group members, who have been reading, teaching, reviewing, and writing about comics and graphic novels, among other things. So I thought this would be a great time to share some of the interesting work they’re doing or plan to do in… Read more »

Comics Studies Reading Group, Fall 2019

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After an interval this summer and a couple of postponements due to scheduling conflicts, the Comics Studies Reading Group started back up in November with a discussion of Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner.Our conversation was pretty wide-ranging, but touched on issues of teenage sexuality, sexual abuse, diaries & confessional writing, the interplay between text… Read more »
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