It's a booming time for more scholarly looks at comics, and Ball State doctoral candidate Christina Blanch is one of the most important figures in this movement. last year she held a MOOC (massive online open course) on Gender in Comics that drew some 7,000 participants, and she's at it again with Social Issues Through Comic Books a six month online course that will examine "current social issues through comic books while understanding how popular culture is shaped by it's surroundings." Guests include Denny O'Neill, Shaenon Garrity, Scott Snyder, Gene Yang, Warren Ellis, Jonathan Hickman, Mark Waid... the list goes on. NOW how much would you pay? Well, it's FREE. Yep.
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For months, I have been trying to get my Google Authorship established.
Walt Simonson's new book from IDW is coming out this summer and the pitch is as simple as it is irresistible. It's called Ragnarök, and it is Simonson's take on the original Norse Mythology. Considering what he did with this raw material in his beloved run on Thor, this should be a treat.
Just So Happens
By Fumio Obata
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Upon first impression of Fumio Obata's new graphic novel, Just So Happens, I was struck...
Louise Fitzhugh's classic children's book Harriet the Spy is being adapted into a graphic novel by Harriet Webster and Claudia Petrazzi, due out from Delacorte Press on April 27, 2027.
