RIP, Walt Curtis
By now, most of you have heard that Portland icon Walt Curtis passed away. Walt was well connected with the Oregon Cartoon Institute (now OCP), and a good friend of…
Free ebook: Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds
Superhero meaning making is a site of struggle. Superheroes (are thought to) trouble borders and normative ways of seeing and being in the world. Superhero narratives (are thought to) represent,…
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal…
Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices
Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have…
Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow: Autumn 2023 Seminar Series
Goya’s Caprichos and Emblems María de los Dolores Cabrero Rodríguez-Jalón (Complutense University, Madrid) Thursday, 5 October 2023, 5 p.m., Glasgow University Library Special Collections Seminar Room and online C.L.R. James’s…
Now in Paperback: Female Cartoonists in the United States Bad Girls and Invisible Women
This book by Hélène Tison provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the US, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light on their…
Call for Submissions: ‘Comic Ethnographies’ special issue of European Comic Art
Guest edited by Sophie Fuggle and James Walker, Nottingham Trent University This special issue of European Comic Art explores the growing use of comics and graphic novels as visual ethnographies.…
New book: I am Stan. By Tom Scioli.
The first graphic novel biography of the legendary Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel’s beloved superheroes, from Eisner-nominated comics creator Tom Scioli. Everyone knows Stan Lee: His work at…
New book: Ilan Manouach in Review. Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics
This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly. An international team of authors…
All Nib magazines are available for FREE
The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end of August. But before they go, they are making all 15 issues of their Eisner…