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Homegrown comic professionals to speak, offer student mentorship

The new comics and arts convention Squatchcon returns for a second year to Port Angeles, with some homegrown professional and aspiring talent.

Professor and Eisner Award-winning author Qiana Whitted dissects captions and corpses.

California just enacted a law that requires employers to post the pay range of jobs they're seeking applicants for. In other news, more University of California academic workers are saying they are the victims of retaliation, after their historic strike late last year. Plus, the Comic-Con Museum has a new exhibit on display.

A trio of diverse exhibits adds up to a bounty of intriguing art hanging in the galleries at Central Arkansas Library Systems Roberts Library in the Little Rock River Market.

Ugh, halfway through spooky month already?

Cinema Junkie Beth Accomando picks her favorite panels.

Oni demons, parasites, flesh-eating giants, vampires, zombies – global pop culture is rife with monsters. The popularity of this genre is on the increase in our pandemic-riven world. Parasites particularly are ubiquitous, yet their depiction in popular culture has not attracted much attention. An ‘infectant’ that lives in or on another living organism, a parasite transforms

Whaley co-authors book on comics studies By: Office of Strategic Communication  |  2021.06.09  |  09:57 am University of Iowa Professor Deborah Whaley has co-authored a new book about the field of comics studies. Released June 8 by NYU Press, Keywords for Comics Studies introduces key terms, research traditions, debates and histories, and offers a sense of new frontiers emerging in the comics studies field. The book of more than 50 essays provides an interdisciplinary vocabulary for...