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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy Tuesday folks - if you missed out on the last Kickstarter, you can now buy print and digital copies of The Comics Courier Issue 2 from our Ko-Fi shop!
ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thanks for the heads-up!

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · May 16

I feel that Shelfdust is the comics website people say they want to read - so I'd love for more people to know about it!

▶️ You can follow the site @shelfdust.bsky.social
▶️ Read it every week shelfdust.com
▶️ Subscribe (paid or free) via Patreon to get weekly email updates www.patreon.com/shelfdust

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · May 1

Happy LAUNCH DAY! The Comics Courier @kickstarter.com is BACK babeeeyyy. Head on over to comicscourier.com to pledge and nab yourself a smokin hot copy of The Comics Courier issue 2. You wont regret it!

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · Apr 11

Guess what? The Comics Courier's Kickstarter is coming round the bend!!! Head over to our pre launch campaign to make sure you're up to date on our shenanigans (it took me 3 times to spell shenanigans!!!)!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2]

A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb

www.kickstarter.com

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Apr 6

And on Alfageeh and Saladin Ahmed's Fadi Fadlalah, Marvel's first Arab American superhero: "Amulet Offers Hope for Good Comic Book Arab Representation"

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Saladin Ahmed and Sara Alfageeh's Amulet Offers Hope for Good Comic Book Arab Representation - WWAC %

Finding a good comic book Arab is as the camel is to pass through the eye of a needle. Saladin Ahmed and Sara Alfageeh's Amulet offers some hope.

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Apr 6

On Shammas and Sara Alfageeh's Squire: "The World of Squire Is a Familiar Face"

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REVIEW: The World of Squire Is a Familiar Face - WWAC %

Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas’s Squire is a comic I have been waiting for -- not just since it was announced, but also my entire life.

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Apr 6

It's Arab American Heritage Month, so here's a few @wwacomics.bsky.social pieces about Arab rep in comics, starting with "Spotlight on Nadia Shammas"

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Spotlight on Nadia Shammas - WWAC %

Recently announced as the writer of a Ms. Marvel graphic novel, Nadia Shammas might new to some, but she isn’t new to comics.

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · Mar 8

It's time to click the button, folks! The pre-launch page for The Comics Courier Issue 2 is live NOW! And what a lineup!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2]

A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb

www.kickstarter.com

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy New Year, pals.

It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant.

My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.

Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2025 Comics Criticism Mini Grant

This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 3 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published in the last year (blogs and Youtube ...

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Jan 1

Two weeks left to submit!

Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Oct 18

Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...

The Blue Age of Comics Book

Blue Age Book CFPDownload

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Dec 27

Conference presentation title slide with an edited screenshot of Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram post about the Black Adam movie changing "the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe" but instead it says "The hierarchy of power... is about to change: Race, Empowerment, and Superhero Comics" / Adrienne Resha, University of Virginia, MLA 2025

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Dec 9

Every time someone asks me what I’m presenting at MLA I’m reminded that I named my paper after a Dwayne The Rock Johnson meme.

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Nov 13

Now that there are more #ComicsStudies scholars here, here's the CFP for The Blue Age of Comics Book! Abstracts due January 15, 2025.

Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Oct 18

Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...

The Blue Age of Comics Book

Blue Age Book CFPDownload

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hello new folks I am not online very often (for a few reasons) but first and foremost being that I am doing what Steve asked.

Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · Nov 5

Please could more of you write books about comics, I want to read some more of those

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Oct 18

Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...

The Blue Age of Comics Book

Blue Age Book CFPDownload

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Sep 15

Proposed seminars for ACLA 2025 are up, including "How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections," which I'm co-organizing with Kate Kelp-Stebbins. Please consider submitting (or sharing with someone who should)!

CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...

How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections | American Comparative Literature Association

https://www.acla.org/how-it’s-made-image-texts-identity-interpretation-intersections

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hello! I’d like to raise some funds for Shelfdust, a comic book website. Everyone writing on Shelfdust covers comics one issue at a time: each essay focuses on a single comic issue.

We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust

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WWAComics @wwacomics.bsky.social · Aug 2

REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers?

REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers? - WWAC %

Adrienne Resha reviews Marvel's NYX #1 by writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and artist Francesco Mortarino.

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Emily Lauer @emilylauer.bsky.social · May 21

#womenonpanels

Emily Lauer @emilylauer.bsky.social · May 21

In March I’ll be cochairing this roundtable at the NeMLA conf! Visual Revolutions: Comics and Speaking the Unspeakable.
We seek participants who look at visual narrative through lenses of gender, sexuality, feminist, and transgender studies. cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S... ; www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html

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Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social · Apr 16

"[Killing Ms. Marvel] was a choice for each of [the creators], even if it was a plot point mandated from above, because they decided to put their names on it despite any objections they may have had." womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/05/the-...

ESSAY: The Day Kamala Khan Died - WWAC %

Adrienne Resha writes about the death of Ms. Marvel in The Amazing Spider-Man #26 by artist John Romita Jr. and writer Zeb Wells.

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Sam Langsdale @samlangsdale.bsky.social · Apr 2

CSS is excited to announce our keynotes for Glitching Comics: John Jennings & Sara Alfageeh!

Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/

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The Comics Studies Society @cssorg.bsky.social · Jan 25

Just THREE weeks remain to get those proposals to our virtual conference in! Bring your glitchiest, feministest ideas, and get ready for the wildest, weirdest Comics Studies Society since the last one! More info here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...

The Gotham City Sirens (Catwoman, Poision Ivy, Harley Quinn) pose for a comic book cover.

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WWAComics @wwacomics.bsky.social · Jan 18

REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3, @adrienneresha.bsky.social

REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3 - WWAC

Adrienne Resha reviews Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Carlos Gómez, and Adam Gorham's Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3.

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Sam Langsdale @samlangsdale.bsky.social · Dec 18

The CFP for CSS's 2024 conference *Glitching Comics* is OPEN! Join us for a virtual conference following the work of Legacy Russell in disrupting the status quo, working against norms, and imagining new possibilities for comics. Art by Sara Alfageeh comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...

Person wearing an astronaut helmet and boxing gloves stands against a background of distorted waves of color. Repeating computer windows read Glitching Comics with the date June 24 - 28 2024

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