Interview with G. Willow Wilson

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-246
Author(s):  
Shabana Mir
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Markets

This interview with G. Willow Wilson explores Wilson’s perspective on Ms. Marvel as a diverse character—a diverse South Asian Muslim teen female character who happens to be a polymorph—in this historical political moment, as well as in the context of the history of comic books. Wilson and Mir also discuss comic book markets, shifts in readerships, and the future of comic books. The character and story of Ms. Marvel as a Muslim American teen help readers reflect on contemporary public political discourse.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunaina Marr Maira
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
South Asian ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
History Of

The Introduction outlines the major questions regarding Muslim American youth and the turn to rights-based activism and cross-ethnic coalitions that are the focus of the book. It discusses why the concept of “youth,” and particularly Muslim and Middle Eastern youth, is so central to to the War on Terror and also often exceptionalized in the post-9/11 moment. It offers an overview of the context of the ethnographic research in Silicon Valley and Fremont/Hayward, situating the three communities (South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American) in the study against the backdrop of the longer history of contestations over race, class, and immigration in this region. It also provides a discussion of the research methods on which the project is based.

Wertham’s Little Goblins

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Cremins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The United States ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Comics Studies ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

After Fawcett’s legal settlement with National in 1953, the original Captain Marvel did not return to comic books until 1973. In the meantime, comic book fans and amateur historians began writing about the character in the 1960s. This chapter traces Captain Marvel’s afterlife in these fanzines, publications that helped to establish the foundation for comics studies in the United States. The chapter also includes an overview of recent developments in the field of memory and nostalgia studies. These recent studies of the history of nostalgia in medicine, psychology, and the arts are essential for an understanding of how childhood memories have shaped comics studies as a discipline.

scholarly journals Canadian Comic Books at Library and Archives Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Meaghan Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Library And Archives Canada ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Collections

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has what is likely the largest collection of Canadian comic books in a Canadian library. LAC’s collection has three distinct parts: comics acquired via legal deposit,the John Bell Collection of Canadian Comic Books, and the Bell Features Collection. These holdings, which span the history of the comics medium in Canada, represent a significant resource for researchers studying Canadian comics. This article looks at each of the three main parts of LAC’s comic book collection, giving anoverview of the contents of each part, and providing information on how researchers can discover and access these comics. The article also briefly explores other comics-related holdings at LAC. Its purposeis to provide a starting point for researchers seeking to make use of LAC’s comic book collections.

scholarly journals Periodization of American Comic Book – A New Proposal

Ad Americam ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Dawid Przywalny
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Frames

Periodization of American Comic Book – A New Proposal The article aims to present a new proposal for the periodization of the history of American comic books. The introduction deals with the problems of other propositions: the academic one created by Arthur Asa Berger and the so-called Olympic / Mainstream that is mainly used by industry artists and readers. The most critical short comings of these periodization are also listed, including them being outdated. The new proposal complements the deficiencies of the previous two: in its actuality, it focuses on the transformations of the comics genre caused by the socio-political implications of the events of September 11, 2001. Each epoch was given specific time frames, cut-off dates, events, and characteristics.

Type in pictures. Comic book lettering in contemporary American comics. An overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-186
Author(s):  
Michał Wolski
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Book Industry ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Counterpart

This paper focuses on the issue of comic book lettering in mainstream American comics with an aim to introduce theoretical and methodological framework for further analysis of comic book typography. First, it addresses numerous aspects of relations between text and image in comics and presents the brief history of lettering in American comic book industry, as it grew apart from its European counterpart in the early years of development and became much more institutionalized, in no part because of the works of Will Eisner, Gaspar Saladino and especially Richard Starkins, who introduced an affordable means of using the digital typography in early 90s' comic books. In its main part the paper presents the classification of usage of lettering in comics' communicates, which distinguishes the diegetic (graphic, verbal and mental) and non-diegetic (meta- or paratextual and narrative) communicates. This analysis was based on the research sample of over 700 comic book issues, mostly from the Ultimate Marvel imprint (2000–2015) In the final paragraphs, the author critically examines functions of comic book typography and outlines three possible fields of further study.

scholarly journals SuperQueeroes – Our LGBTI* Comic Book Heroes and Heroines Schwules Museum*, January 22-June 26, 2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Carlos Kong
Keyword(s):  
Comic Book ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
The Future ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Work

SuperQueeroes – Our LGBTI* Comic Book Heroes and Heroines at the Schwules Museum* in Berlin presents the first exhibition of queer comics in Europe. The exhibition provides a comprehensive survey of comics with LGBTI characters and narratives, primarily from Europe and America. As a foundational endeavor, SuperQueeroes raises important questions regarding the curation of both comics and the history of sexuality, whose critical examination remains relevant for the future work on queer comics that the exhibition will likely inspire.

The Sign of the Joker

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. vi-82
Author(s):  
Joel West
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Book Series ◽  
History Of

Abstract The Joker both fascinates and repels us. From his origin in Detective Comics in 1940, the Joker has committed obscene crimes, some of the worst the Batman universe has ever known. Conversely fans have made him the topic of erotic and pornographic “fan fiction.” Speculation about the Joker abounds; some fans have even claimed that the Joker is “queer coded.” This work explores various popular claims about the Joker, and delves into the history of comic books and of other popular media from a semiotic viewpoint to understand “The Clown Prince of Crime” in the contexts in which he existed to understand his evolution. From his roots as a “typical hoodlum,” The Joker even starred in his own eponymous comic book series and he was recently featured in a non-canonical movie. This work examines what it is about the Joker which fascinates us.

The Bible and Graphic Novels and Comic Books

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew T. Coates
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Sequential Art ◽  
The Bible ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
The Relationship

“The Bible and Graphic Novels and Comic Books” argues that Protestants used images for a surprising range of religious purposes in their twentieth-century comic book Bibles. The chapter provides a brief theoretical overview of the medium of sequential art and the relationship between words and images in Protestant comic book Bibles. It also examines the history of Protestant comic book Bible production from the 1930s to the 2010s. The chapter argues that changing artistic styles in comic books reveal changing religious and cultural sensibilities in twentieth-century American Protestantism. The chapter offers close examinations of significant examples from the history of comic book Bibles, discussing the religious work these images performed in Protestant communities.

Strict(er) Scrutiny: The Impact of Failed Divestitures on U.S. Merger Remedies

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-386
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Wetzel
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Merger Remedies ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Antitrust review of mergers and merger remedies, in particular, have been the topic of much recent conversation both in the legal world and popular political discourse. A recent string of failed divestitures has driven the U.S. antitrust agencies to analyze proposed remedies and proposed divestiture buyers with increasing scrutiny as they seek to avoid similar outcomes. This article details the history of recent divestiture failures and explores how the agencies have adapted their remedy vetting process in response through longer investigations, enhanced focus on particular aspects of buyers’ qualifications, and an increased insistence on up-front buyers, as well as the agencies’ success in persuading courts that proposed divestitures and/or buyers were inadequate in a series of recent litigated merger challenges. Against this backdrop, this article offers practical guidance for merger parties and would-be buyers to navigate the approval process amid the agencies’ heightened sensitivities to the qualifications of divestiture buyers. Finally, it suggests that there is little empirical support for the notion that the most concrete, observable agency responses will reduce the risk of divestiture failures in the future.

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