Sequential Scholars Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Scholar Stephen J. Lind, for exampled recently published: A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz for the University of Mississippi Press, building on work by other scholars such as Robert Short and David Michaelis. 2/6 https://t.co/iZH7KPRp87

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In “Seduction of the Innocent,” Fredric Wertham was similarly alarmed by the prospect of young people copying what they saw in the comics. Wertham argued that juvenile delinquents copied both the explicit violence and implied gender & sexual deviance of superhero comics. 5/13 https://t.co/hpkEMg6jqx

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In 1975, Susan Brownmiller’s seminal “Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape” helped shift public understandings of rape from a rare, private, isolated crime to what it actually is: an extremely common form of gendered violence aided & abetted by patriarchal institutions. 2/13 https://t.co/OoF2V9cElk

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Representing supernatural worlds requires representing the unrepresentable. Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” comics tackle this problem through the use of aspect-to-aspect & non-sequitur panel transitions, as well as inset panels that prompt imaginative, subjective closure. 1/10 #Hellboy https://t.co/qexjUlHKRx

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In “Words for Pictures,” Alias author Brian Michael Bendis provides an account for his lateral approach to comics creation, offering potential insight into where a character as unique as Jessica Jones might have come from. #JessicaJones 1/4 https://t.co/Ys1vUHbfgG

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Alias employs a variety of techniques to insert Jessica Jones into the existing fictional history of the Marvel comics universe. The character’s history is initially hinted at through photos of Jessica dressed as a superhero standing next to the Avengers. 2/12 https://t.co/SBLcbMlpEj

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Yet despite a hard-to-account-for erasure from the modern zeitgeist, Krazy Kat still looms large by reputation amongst modern comics creators. My personal favorite tribute comes in the form of a glossary entry at the back of Dylan Horrocks “Hicksville”: 9/10 https://t.co/uBKGJBG9HK

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In the 3x Harvey Award Winning graphic novel “Louis Riel,” Chester Brown’s perspective creates a depiction of the historical Métis leader that drives the resolution of the autobiography, defining the main subject’s relationship to both the reader & history itself. 1/8 #LouisRiel https://t.co/RG230SYbcm

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1994’s “Seed of Destruction” is the first Hellboy miniseries. Written & drawn by Hellboy’s creator Mike Mignola with a script assist by veteran writer/artist John Byrne, it establishes Hellboy’s origin and core allies, and was used as the basis for the first Hellboy film. 2/13 https://t.co/Gine2OAGTO

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"Nice House" builds its pandemic allegory through a narrative structure comparable to season 1 of the TV series “Lost,” but with additional character dynamics familiar to readers of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” alongside Stephen King-style interior conflicts. 4/5 https://t.co/jEnfkXoBcP

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