Australia has a long history of book banning organised by Christian associations and churches. A federal court appeal attempt to ban graphic memoir Gender Queer is still to be considered this year.
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Webcomics are functioning as emotional outlets for artists, as well as intentional acts of solidarity and resistance against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.
Heartstopper is a celebration of ‘queer joy’ that uses the imaginative intimacy of graphic novels to invite the reader into its tight-knit world.
Though they’re sometimes characterized as attention-addled homebodies, younger people see a real value in libraries − one that goes beyond books.
Memoirs about the Holocaust by women emphasize women’s embodied, gendered experiences, and show their intelligence, agency and resolve in the face of Nazi persecution.
Faced with an overwhelming amount of information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, comics offer us a thoughtful way to delve into the roots and current events of the conflict.
Graphic novels pair text and images to explain complex topics – from thermodynamics to abstract math – without alienating STEM-averse students.
Coming of age stories in young adult and graphic novels can provide ways of thinking about a seemingly intractable conflict.
Comic book creators with a history of galvanising social action on America’s streets have created a graphic novel about the US Capitol attacks.
Creative literature has a unique role to play in fighting the climate crisis, as these three graphic novels prove.
Netflix’s Sandman is quite different from the comics and that opens up the story to a whole new fandom.
Gaiman’s dream goes by many names, each inspired by different ideas of what dreams and nightmares have been to people throughout history.
Much of his work was imbued with a sense of the end, so it is fitting to look back at three of his best works to mark the illustrator’s passing
Two radically inventive new works of Australian graphic nonfiction dig deep into 21st-century life. They balance critique with hopeful possibilities – of collective change and radical acceptance.
Strong queer representation in young adult comics can have a significant positive impact on the well-being of queer-identified or questioning youth.
Designed by scientists, a comic book empowers the reader to become a pioneer of cutting-edge, agro-ecological farming in developing countries.
The multigenerational memoir laid the groundwork for graphic memoirs to become an essential form for remembering the Holocaust and communicating its legacy of trans-generational trauma.
Comics about migrant experiences seek to expose personal perspectives about the global crisis of 80 million individuals and families forcibly displaced worldwide.
Science and comic books have been cross-pollinating each other for some time (think Spider-Man). But kids can learn a lot of valuable science information from comics books too.
2020 has been a tumultuous year. Here are some books your kids can lose themselves in this summer.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Monash University
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Lecturer in Literature and Gender, University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia
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Senior Lecturer in English, City, University of London
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Lecturer in Comic Studies, University of Dundee
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Professor of English, University of Surrey
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Lecturer, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Sociologue, Directrice du laboratoire BONHEURS, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Lecturer, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, Lancaster University
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Graduate Tutor and Lecturer in Film, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
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Maître de conférences en sciences de l’information et de la communication, CREM, Université de Lorraine
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Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
