#My5books [updated]

January 19, 2012
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A stu­dent of mine wants to read 5 key com­mu­ni­ca­tion books. I have a list, but what would you sug­gest? (#nocanon­wars) @ScottTimcke My col­league and friend, Scott Tim­cke, recently posed a chal­lenge on twit­ter to list five “key books” in com­mu­ni­ca­tion stud­ies. This can’t be a “best of” list, though, as the field of...

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A Burning Hand of Fire

January 18, 2012
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Cover, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby by Charles Hatfield

I just fin­ished Charles Hatfield’s new book, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, which is the lat­est addi­tion to the Uni­ver­sity Press of Mississippi’s “Great Comics Artists” series. I’m not a Kirby expert or acolyte, though I’ve always appre­ci­ated the manic,...

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New Research Available

December 1, 2011
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Some find­ings from my research are now avail­able. If you are read­ing this from a com­puter with insti­tu­tional access, then you can check out my newly released arti­cle from The Jour­nal of Graphic Nov­els and Comics, “The Android’s Dun­geon: Comic-bookstores, Cul­tural Spaces, and the...

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Lightning Round 2011.10.05

October 5, 2011
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It’s been a lit­tle while since my last update, so I thought it might be time for another … Light­ning Round. *** I’ve embarked on yet another facelift for the ol’ web­site. Expect some adjust­ments in the next lit­tle while. Of note, how­ever, are two...

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John Gilbert Layton (1950–2011)

August 23, 2011
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John Gilbert Layton (1950–2011)

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