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Pat Lawrence @patslawrence.bsky.social · 23d

Look at this cool collection of comics with @benpassmore.bsky.social Ebony Flowers, and others. With an intro by @qianawhitted.bsky.social www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#comi...

Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2

Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...

www.shenandoahliterary.org

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · Jul 26

Congratulations!

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · Jul 26

#SDCC25 The Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work goes to DRAWING (IN) THE FEMININE: BANDE DESSINÉE AND WOMEN edited by Margaret C. Flinn, published by Ohio State University Press

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · May 30

Rutgers is having a summer sale! And Carol’s essay on early Black comics readers is SO GOOD

Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · May 30

You can get a copy of Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American #Comics, edited by @qianawhitted.bsky.social and containing essays by lots of great people (including me!) for 50% off. Use code RSUMMER50 and order directly from @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Desegregating Comics - Rutgers University Press

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 cha...

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · May 24

Really looking forward to getting a copy of this book. Congrats Pat and Jorge!

Pat Lawrence @patslawrence.bsky.social · May 22

Out of the Gutters is out of the box. That is, it came in a box and I took it out. But the book is here! It was amazing to work with Jorge Santos and all our exceptional contributors, as well as the incomparable @utexaspress.bsky.social
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/

Out of the Gutters

Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the p...

utpress.utexas.edu

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · May 21

Every single thing on this page that isn’t a human figure (or object) is lettering.

My work on FALL THROUGH is nominated for the “Best Lettering” Eisner Award this year— please consider voting for me in this category. Thank you for your support! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · May 15

vote for the homie.

Radiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · May 15

Big big big congratulations to @btrcp.bsky.social for their EISNER AWARD NOMINATION! UM Volume One has been nominated for Best Graphic Album-Reprint! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

bright pink book with a Black non-binary person on the cover posing, surrounded by magical energy as a colorful suit forms around them.

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kwanza osajyefo @kwanza.bsky.social · May 15

JUST STOPPING BY TO REMIND FOLKS IRONHEART DEBUTS ON DISNEY+ JUNE 24 AND IS WRITTEN BY A BLACK WOMAN CHINAKA HODGE (not Ryan Coogler)

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · May 16

An incredible comic - very happy to see this one nominated!!!

David F Walker a.k.a. BadAzz MoFo @davidfwalker.bsky.social · May 16

Honored to be nominated for an Eisner along with @marcuskwame.com and @struble.bsky.social for BIG JIM AND THE WHITE BOY from Ten Speed Graphic.

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · May 15

So excited to see that @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social has been nominated for an #Eisner award!!! Congrats to Susan Kirtley and the entire editorial team!

Cover of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19 @libcomix.bsky.social · Apr 7

Today ALA released the highly anticipated Top 10 Most Challenged Books List as part of the 2025 State of America’s Libraries Report.

www.ala.org/bbooks

top 10 most challenged books of 2024 banner showing small previews of some library book covers.

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · Apr 1

That sounds like an awesome class! @bwcostello.bsky.social might be interested too

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · Apr 1

I might need to make this my phone wallpaper 😩

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · Apr 1

Andy Diggle & Enrique Breccia, Swamp Thing #1 (2004)

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · Mar 3

I'm co-organizing a panel proposal on "Adaptation & Opposition Through Comics" for MLA 2026 in Toronto! Abstracts due by March 15: bit.ly/MLA2026comicsadaptation

ADAPTATION and OPPOSITION through COMICS
A session proposed for MLA 2026

How do comics adaptations riff on, rewrite, or supplant existing canonical works and literary forms? Why are these resistant adaptations often perceived as a threat?

Send 300-word abstracts and short bios by March 15, 2025 to Robert Nguyen guyen@lycoming.edu and Qiana Whitted whittedq@mailbox.sc.edu.

View the complete call at bit.ly/MLA2026comicsadaptation
co-sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives and Adaptation Studies.

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · Feb 2

For Black History Month: last year I compiled a bib of sources re to Black youth's experiences in reading #comics (1930 - 1965). This work accompanied my essay on the same topic in @qianawhitted.bsky.social book Desegregating Comics. More here: caroltilley.net/2023/04/blac...

Two black youths read copies of Police Comics (May 1942), while sitting on a building stoop in Southwest Washington, DC. Photograph by Gordon Parks, November 1942, for the Farm Security Administration.

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · Jan 31

No clear legal authority supports OPM’s plan. It does not use the existing VSIP program to establish the buyout. It promises funds to employees that have not been appropriated by Congress. Finally, it intends for agencies to authorize a period of administrative leave that exceeds current limits. In theory, Congress could ratify the Trump administration’s program by appropriating the necessary funds and authorizing longer administrative leave for employees who resign. Employees who elect to resign, however, take a gamble on the willingness of Congress to authorize the program.

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you also have friends and family who received the “fork in the road” offer, this piece from Lawfare is a good explainer: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...

Breaking Down OPM’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Email to Federal Workers

Though the subject line borrows a phrase from Musk’s Twitter email, the federal government is not a private company, and its HR policies are arcane and legally binding.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · Jan 23

CFP: Canadian Comics. Abstracts due 3/15. 🇨🇦

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · Jan 21

RIP Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025. A true legend.

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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social · Jan 19

I spent way too much time paused on this badly photoshopped newspaper #Severance

Newspaper page from the Apple+ show Severance with the headline: “Innies” Blow The Whistle.

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · Jan 7

so i took @robertaman.bsky.social and lars wallner's textbook TEACHING WITH COMICS, which is a survey of what teachers of comics have learned about the medium and its readers rather than an instruction manual for graphica in the classroom, and tried to find the answers everyone else is in pursuit of