To say that David Walker is a creative super-force of nature would be an understatement. Prodigious author of award-winning comics. Author of widely acclaimed YA and adult fiction. Writer of incisive pop cultural criticism and journalistic scholarship. Maker of documentary films. Passionate and dedicated professor across all the storytelling arts at Portland State University. It’s…
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The Expansion of Comic Language: MELANCOLíA and Graphic Poetry
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SPURS AND STRIPES: Cowboys, Art, and a Love for Both
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Anatomy of a Panel: David F. Walker and BITTER ROOT
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Learning to Love the Legion [Bonus]: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #5
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Transmyscira: Exorcising the Ghosts of the 20th Century with IRON MAN: EXTREMIS
Health and Inclusivity
Health and Inclusivity: The Hard Road to Peace in FAR SECTOR
Sometimes, our journeys take us further than we ever expected. What we end up reaching has its own vestiges of our past as we uncover new experiences. In similar fashion, Sojourner Mullein, or Jo, is a new Green Lantern sent to the far reaches of space in N.K. Jemisin, Jamal Campbell, and Deron Bennett’s Far…
Health and Inclusivity: Finding Commonality in Weaver, Lee, and Robles-Valdez’s THE UNCOMMONS
Health and Inclusivity: Connecting to Mythology with IS’NANA: THE WERE-SPIDER
Health and Inclusivity: Starting a New School Year with CHECK, PLEASE!
Health and Inclusivity: Protecting Ourselves with Garcia and Picolo’s TEEN TITANS: RAVEN
The Comics Classroom
The Comics Classroom: THOR and the Eternal Return
Thor is a character who has long held a unique place in graphic/textual history as both a “comic” character — he was the creation of Stan & Larry Lee and Jack Kirby for Journey into Mystery #83 in 1962 — and as a religious/mythological figure. Few beings of genuine religious and mythological status (in the…
Kirbyology!
KIRBYOLOGY!: Peanut, Dumpling, and Big Daddy
Who needs Small, Medium, and Large when Jack Kirby gave us Peanut, Dumpling, and Big Daddy? … So I’m going to be talking about Jack Kirby at a conference for word nerds. In January, I’ll be taking a trip to New Orleans for the American Name Society’s annual conference and giving a presentation called “Baron…
Transmyscira
Transmyscira: Exorcising the Ghosts of the 20th Century with IRON MAN: EXTREMIS
Let us not become the evil we deplore. – Rep. Barbara Lee, September 14th, 2001 I couldn’t take it any longer. I grabbed a microphone and said, ‘I’m no fly on the wall. I am the hornet that stings.’ There was an immediate uproar, so not having anything more to say, I shouted out,…
Learning to Love the LEGION
Learning to Love the Legion [Bonus]: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #5
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! It feels weird to be writing a fannish examination of the latest Legion of Super-Heroes comic, ensconced in my locked-down New York City apartment. I haven’t been outside in three days, but my wife is a social worker in the ER of a large hospital. Today she went to work and saw…
History of Violence
REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA and its Debt to Shinji Wada
Do you know? Do you know? Have you heard this story before? A pink haired young girl seeks to protect her friend, a bullied young woman with a bindi mark on her forehead. What the pink haired girl doesn’t realize is there’s more to her friend then she’s able to recognize and the girl with…
A Holiday Special Edition: The Rise and Fall of TITANS’ Lian Harper
The Fall of Roy Harper: How ARSENAL’s Navajo Origins Disappeared from the Page
Deadly Nightshade: Poison Ivy, SQUADRON SUPREME, and a History of Sexualized Violence
Paved with Good Intentions: How HEROES IN CRISIS Betrays Trauma Victims
Queer Visibility
Baby, Queer Me One More Time: 39 MORE Indie Titles Doing Right by LGBTA Fans
Over the last few years, we’ve highlighted 101 print comics — not published by industry leaders DC or Marvel — and 80 webcomics that give queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and asexual characters and stories center stage. The list is growing so quickly every day, to be honest, that keeping up with all…
#MakeComics
#MakeComics: Writer/Artist Niki Smith
How do the pros #MakeComics? We’re here to tell you. Comicosity is picking the brains of a pro who is killing it in the comics industry, and for this round I was lucky enough to talk to Niki Smith! Niki is the writer and artist of the recently released The Deep & Dark Blue, as well…