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Adrienne Resha, PhD

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Scholar/critic writing about Arab and Muslim American superheroes. Icon by Gwen Moore. adrienneresha.com (she/her)

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CFP/ MLA 2027. Panel on Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives, sponsored by the Forum on Comics and Graphic Narrative. Deadline 3/16.

26.02.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MLA 2027 CFP for 3 panels sponsored by the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum:
I. Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives
II. Heated Rivalries: Sports, Games, and Graphic Narrative
III. The Hernandez Brothers, Page-by-Page

28.01.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
MLA's Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum: After hours comics shopping and socializing at The Beguiling. Light snacks and beverages available for purchase. Friday Jan. 9, 2026, 7-8:30pm, The Beguiling, 319 College St., Toronto.

MLA's Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum: After hours comics shopping and socializing at The Beguiling. Light snacks and beverages available for purchase. Friday Jan. 9, 2026, 7-8:30pm, The Beguiling, 319 College St., Toronto.

If you're going to be at MLA 2026 in Toronto this week, the Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum is hosting a social at The Beguiling on Friday at 7pm. Come out and say hello!

07.01.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you are in Toronto this week for the MLA Convention, the Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum is sponsoring a social hour at the comics store The Beguiling on Friday, 1/9 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm.

06.01.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lilac top border with text saying β€˜call for chapters’. Below is an image of southern hemisphere of the globe drawn in swirling blue and brown lines. Text below reads β€˜Companion to International Comics Studies’.

Lilac top border with text saying β€˜call for chapters’. Below is an image of southern hemisphere of the globe drawn in swirling blue and brown lines. Text below reads β€˜Companion to International Comics Studies’.

#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.

02.11.2025 20:15 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Tuesday folks - if you missed out on the last Kickstarter, you can now buy print and digital copies of The Comics Courier Issue 2 from our Ko-Fi shop!
ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...

02.09.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Thanks for the heads-up!

24.08.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Shelfdust logo - a white letter S against a square black speech balloon

The Shelfdust logo - a white letter S against a square black speech balloon

I feel that Shelfdust is the comics website people say they want to read - so I'd love for more people to know about it!

▢️ You can follow the site @shelfdust.bsky.social
▢️ Read it every week shelfdust.com
▢️ Subscribe (paid or free) via Patreon to get weekly email updates www.patreon.com/shelfdust

16.05.2025 12:15 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Happy LAUNCH DAY! The Comics Courier @kickstarter.com is BACK babeeeyyy. Head on over to comicscourier.com to pledge and nab yourself a smokin hot copy of The Comics Courier issue 2. You wont regret it!

01.05.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 18
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Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2] A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb

Guess what? The Comics Courier's Kickstarter is coming round the bend!!! Head over to our pre launch campaign to make sure you're up to date on our shenanigans (it took me 3 times to spell shenanigans!!!)!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

11.04.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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REVIEW: The World of Squire Is a Familiar Face - WWAC % Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas’s Squire is a comic I have been waiting for -- not just since it was announced, but also my entire life.

On Shammas and Sara Alfageeh's Squire: "The World of Squire Is a Familiar Face"

womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2022/05/revi...

06.04.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotlight on Nadia Shammas - WWAC % Recently announced as the writer of a Ms. Marvel graphic novel, Nadia Shammas might new to some, but she isn’t new to comics.

It's Arab American Heritage Month, so here's a few @wwacomics.bsky.social pieces about Arab rep in comics, starting with "Spotlight on Nadia Shammas"

womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/08/spot...

06.04.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Saladin Ahmed and Sara Alfageeh's Amulet Offers Hope for Good Comic Book Arab Representation - WWAC % Finding a good comic book Arab is as the camel is to pass through the eye of a needle. Saladin Ahmed and Sara Alfageeh's Amulet offers some hope.

And on Alfageeh and Saladin Ahmed's Fadi Fadlalah, Marvel's first Arab American superhero: "Amulet Offers Hope for Good Comic Book Arab Representation"

womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/02/the-...

06.04.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2] A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb

It's time to click the button, folks! The pre-launch page for The Comics Courier Issue 2 is live NOW! And what a lineup!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

08.03.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7
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2025 Comics Criticism Mini Grant This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 3 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published in the last year (blogs and Youtube ...

Happy New Year, pals.

It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant.

My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.

Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

06.01.2025 02:51 πŸ‘ 250 πŸ” 236 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 23

Two weeks left to submit!

01.01.2025 17:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
27.12.2024 18:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every time someone asks me what I’m presenting at MLA I’m reminded that I named my paper after a Dwayne The Rock Johnson meme.

09.12.2024 18:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Now that there are more #ComicsStudies scholars here, here's the CFP for The Blue Age of Comics Book! Abstracts due January 15, 2025.

13.11.2024 18:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello new folks I am not online very often (for a few reasons) but first and foremost being that I am doing what Steve asked.

08.11.2024 21:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Blue Age of Comics Book Blue Age Book CFPDownload

Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...

18.10.2024 14:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections | American Comparative Literature Association

Proposed seminars for ACLA 2025 are up, including "How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections," which I'm co-organizing with Kate Kelp-Stebbins. Please consider submitting (or sharing with someone who should)!

CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...

15.09.2024 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello! I’d like to raise some funds for Shelfdust, a comic book website. Everyone writing on Shelfdust covers comics one issue at a time: each essay focuses on a single comic issue.

We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust

08.08.2024 11:04 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 11
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REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers? - WWAC % Adrienne Resha reviews Marvel's NYX #1 by writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and artist Francesco Mortarino.

REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers?

02.08.2024 13:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#womenonpanels

21.05.2024 17:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ESSAY: The Day Kamala Khan Died - WWAC % Adrienne Resha writes about the death of Ms. Marvel in The Amazing Spider-Man #26 by artist John Romita Jr. and writer Zeb Wells.

"[Killing Ms. Marvel] was a choice for each of [the creators], even if it was a plot point mandated from above, because they decided to put their names on it despite any objections they may have had." womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/05/the-...

16.04.2024 19:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Flyer with two headshot photos, one of John Jennings and one of Sara Alfageeh, accompanied by text boxes with their bios

Flyer with two headshot photos, one of John Jennings and one of Sara Alfageeh, accompanied by text boxes with their bios

CSS is excited to announce our keynotes for Glitching Comics: John Jennings & Sara Alfageeh!

Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/

02.04.2024 21:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
The Gotham City Sirens (Catwoman, Poision Ivy, Harley Quinn) pose for a comic book cover.

The Gotham City Sirens (Catwoman, Poision Ivy, Harley Quinn) pose for a comic book cover.

Just THREE weeks remain to get those proposals to our virtual conference in! Bring your glitchiest, feministest ideas, and get ready for the wildest, weirdest Comics Studies Society since the last one! More info here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...

25.01.2024 21:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3 - WWAC Adrienne Resha reviews Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Carlos GΓ³mez, and Adam Gorham's Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3.

REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3, @adrienneresha.bsky.social

18.01.2024 16:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Person wearing an astronaut helmet and boxing gloves stands against a background of distorted waves of color. Repeating computer windows read Glitching Comics with the date June 24 - 28 2024

Person wearing an astronaut helmet and boxing gloves stands against a background of distorted waves of color. Repeating computer windows read Glitching Comics with the date June 24 - 28 2024

The CFP for CSS's 2024 conference *Glitching Comics* is OPEN! Join us for a virtual conference following the work of Legacy Russell in disrupting the status quo, working against norms, and imagining new possibilities for comics. Art by Sara Alfageeh comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...

18.12.2023 20:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0