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New article (in German) on our #comics collection at SUB Göttingen!
💥Head over to the #ComFor website to learn how you can send us YOUR comics requests
🗪 & what comics we already have:
📚from classics in Scots to #indiecomics from down under & #DoctorWho
A new article on our website libaac.de highlights our collections of #comics & #graphicnovels 💥in Göttingen & Berlin with each location's different focus.
🦸♀️💬 Plus: how to access & use our new Zotero group for alle researchers of #ComicsStudies
Link: https://libaac.de/search/search-tips/comics-and-graphic-novels/
RE: https://openbiblio.social/@fidromanistik/116599883935182959
Yesss we take part in this talk, too! Thank you for tagging us! 🥰
Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates
For #MonsterMonday you might also want to take note of the #CfP #CallforPapers for next year's #Inklings symposium:
#Inklings2026 conference will focus on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic" - #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #ComicsStudies #DnD #TVStudies & more
Can you believe that #Snoopy, #CharlieBrown & the other Peanuts are 75 years old #OTD ? The 1st ever #Peanuts strip was published 2 Oct, 1950!
You can find all volumes of the complete Peanuts comic strips as well as several secondary sources in our collection! 🥜
You love #GraphicNovels & #Libraries ? Then this essay collection, edited by Carrye Kay Syma, Robert G. Weiner & Donell Callender is for you! The 18 essays look at the depiction of #librarians & #archives in a variety of (mostly 🇺🇸) #comics incl. #Marvelcomics & #BTVS 's Giles
#ComicsStudies #ComicStudies #AmericanStudies #PopularCulture
American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!
Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!
#BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM
...like this #ComicsStudies book by Jochen Ecke on the "British Comic Book Invasion" of creators like #AlanMoore, #GrantMorrison & #GarthEnnis
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=166395819X
We are still building our collection, so please tell us your wishes for anglophone comics from outside the US!
Today is #FreeComicBookDay #FCBD
Did you know that while our partners at the Branch Library North American Studies at the University Library, FU Berlin collect #AmericanComics SUB Göttingen has its own growing collection of anglophone #comics from outside the US & secondary texts?
I’m doing a panel with another author next week at a book festival, putting our two books side by side along the common thread of “borders” (my comic, his travel journal). I’ve had such fun drawing 6 panels trying to build thematic & visual bridges. Thinking through comics is so productive for opening up dialogues. (Ha! I hope this actually works in practice on a stage, however…)
#comics #visualMethods #comicsstudies #geography
A #CfP #CallForPapers by ComFor on childhood & youth in/and #Comics, deadline 30 April 2025
CfP in English language here: https://www.comicgesellschaft.de/en/2025/01/15/cfp-20-comfor-jahrestagung-2025-in-hamburg-kindheit-und-adoleszenz-in-und-comics/
#ComicsStudies #ComicStudies #ChildhoodStudies #PopularCulture
Via @chmeyer2203 auf Bluesky:
🥳🥳🥳 Another (new) publication. Open access. Co-edited; together with Vanessa Ossa and Lukas Wilde ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #comics #comicsStudies #ComicForschung
Full version here: https://www.comicgesellschaft.de/comfor2014-2024/
It's the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples!
A perfect day to highlight this new book in our collection: "Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels" by James J. Donahue, on many artists incl. Theo Tso, Todd Houseman & Arigon Starr
Tänään ohjelmassa supersankariväitös!
Tutkijakollegani Laura Antola väittelee Turun yliopistossa amerikkalaisten supersankarisarjakuvien adaptaatiosta. Englanninkielistä väitöstä pääsee seuraamaan myös etänä, joten täällä ollaan koneen ääressä Marvel-paita päällä. 🦸🏻♀️
"Creating Transnational Superheroes. The Adaptation of American Superhero Comics in Finland in the late twentieth century".
https://www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohtaista/tapahtumat/vaitos-mediatutkimus-fm-laura-antola
#sarjakuvat #SarjakuvaTutkimus #SuperSankarit #SuperHeroes #ComicsStudies
Looking for some fun reading for this weekend? Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America is currently 57% off at Amazon! #comics #herblock #politicalcartoons #comicsstudies #postwar #editorialillustration #editorialcartoon #editorialcartooning #americanstudies #journalismhistory
#CallForPapers for Anthology: #Batman... Also Starring
Many #academic texts focus on Batman as a cultural figure in comics as well as in #films, #television programs, and video #games. However, like all great superheroes, Batman is as much defined by his supporting cast as he is by his costume, abilities or origin. While there is no shortage of scholarship devoted to his most famous sidekicks and his most popular villains, little critical attention has been paid to the majority of his cast.
#Comics #FilmStudies #ComicsStudies #PopularCultureStudies #FandomStudies #Academics #CFP
For more information: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/21/batman%E2%80%A6-also-starring-essays-on-the-caped-crusader%E2%80%99s-supporting-cast
Ive just been introduced to this excellent German Comics Studies journal. Lots of very good articles, many of them in English as well. #comics #ComicsStudies https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/comickontext
Today, the Comics Kingdom site (a fantastic source for new and classic newspaper strips!) reprinted E.C. Segar's January 17, 1929 cartoon of Thimble Theater featuring the first appearance of Popeye. #comics #comicsstudies #newspaperstrips #popeye
Lambda awards are out, so now I can say that I was on the jury in the LGBTQ+ Studies category!
I absolutely loved the winner we chose, Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott.
Blog post here:
https://jort.link/www.bogireadstheworld.com/lambda-winners-are-available-and/
#Pride #Pride2023 #LambdaAwards #Lambda #Nonfiction #Academic #QueerStudies #GenderStudies #ScienceFictionStudies #Superheroes #Bookstodon @bookstodon #BlackAuthors #BlackSFF #Comics #ComicsStudies #Queer #QueerBooks
Speaking of conferences, this year's Comic Studies Society conference is in my backyard! #comicsstudies #conference
I'm really proud of this work and I hope you'll consider reading it. If you do, please let me know as I'd love to hear what others think of it!
Block is arguably most famous for the numerous cartoons he drew responding to what he saw as the smear politics of two Republicans: Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
Long an opponent of the methods used by various congressional committees to root out alleged communists from American life, his 1950 responding to the tactics of Joseph McCarthy popularized the word McCarthyism as a short-hand for political witch hunts.
His depiction of Nixon as a sewer-dwelling thug complete with heavy five o’clock shadow and drooping jowls became so inseparable in people’s minds with the real Nixon that for much of his political career he was obsessed with “erasing the Herblock image.”
But there was much more to Block’s work than standing against these two politicians and Drawing Liberalism also explores how he engaged with issues such as civil rights and civil liberties, the emergence of a new conservative movement, and the election of 1968.
We’re less than a week away from the official publication date of Drawing Liberalism and preorders are starting to arrive, so I thought I’d write a short thread about my book.
Drawing Liberalism is a book about several things, but at its heart is the work of #Herblock. For those unfamiliar with his career, Herbert Block was the Washington Post’s political cartoonist from 1946 until his death in 2001. His work for the Post covered almost every major issue of the second half of the 20th century. Among many other topics, he regularly drew about issues including the U.S. economy, civil rights, environmentalism, the influence of special interests, corruption, and gun control.
Like many Americans of his generation, Block was a proponent of postwar liberalism, a normative set of values and assumptions that believed a benevolent but activist and expansive federal government could shape society by keeping in check the worst excesses of capitalism.
RT Stella Wisdom
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Do you enjoy reading digital comics & are you based in the UK? If so @CDPConnect
student Linda Berube may want to speak with you! To find out more read this blog post: https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/02/reading-along-with-readers-reading-digital-comics.html
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@cityuni_hcid
@StephannMakri
@Contemporary_BL
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#ComicsStudies
One of the most important US comics only lasted 1 issue. Orrin Cromwell Evans, a member of NAACP, founded All Negro Comics in 1947. It featured all black writers, artists and characters. He was unable to get the newsprint to publish issue 2, and some believe other comics publishers sought to block Evans's innovation (challenge). #Comics #ComicsStudies #BlackMastodon
It is often said that underground comics in the '60s created autobiographical comics, but Fay King was doing it in 1912 in the Denver Post. Her self-caricature is also believed to be the inspiration behind EC Segar's Olive Oyl. #Comics #ComicsStudies
Comics Studies is so dominated by the US narrative that Yellow Kid and his Phonogram from 1896 is widely regarded as the first comic strip and therefore the first comic, but this hides the fact that the European illustrated press had been producing recognisable comics much earlier and had been doing much more interesting things with space and page layout. This is by Fred Barnard from the Illustrated London News in 1868. #Comics #ComicsStudies #History #Media
I'm excited to be part of the #LibLearnX23 educational programming at the end of the month. Register today to participate in my "Comic Conventions as Professional Development and Outreach Opportunities" session. Any of my #library chums going? #libraries #librarians #LibraryMastodon #librarian #comics #ComicsStudies #ComicConventions
Jackie Ormes, creator of the Torchy Brown strip, is widely regarded as the first African-American woman to work in comics. She was publishing comics from 1937 to 1956. #BlackMastodon #Comics #ComicsStudies
Longshot Comics vol 1 arrived in the post yesterday. Entitled The Long and Unlearned Life of Roland Gethers, it is drawn using tiny regular panels--40 per page--with characters rendered as differently sized and positioned dots. #Comics #ComicsStudies
This is an important read for my #ComicsStudies colleagues
#comics #webcomic #scholars #librarians #CollectionDevelopment