Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of @vaultofculture, secretary of @cssorg, @ntfclocal6546 steward, comics scholar, a ton of other stuff. Views own.
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3 Jul 2023
Am establishing a profile where the sky is bluer—feel free to follow me there. 😎
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9 Feb 2024
We monsters matter. We matter all over the world. The lucky ones among us know that WE ARE ALL MONSTERS and know that WE ALL MATTER and that WAR hurts our collective monster soul. @MONSTERSMATTER
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16 Jan 2024
Reminder: due to a glitch in our system, the deadline for submissions has been extended for an entire month! You now have until February 16th to get those proposals in line, because the best things take time! Join us here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-c…
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8 Jan 2024
Reminder: submissions for our upcoming virtual conference (June 24-28) are open! Join us to “imagine new possibilities of what the body can do, and how this can work against the normative” (per Russell), and explore the frontiers of what comics can do! comicsstudies.org/css-2024-c…
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8 Jan 2024
A classic string board appears in Chucky s01e03 Syfy/USA, 2021): vaultofculture.com/vault/202…
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2 Jan 2024
A tiny bit of string appears in the background of a scene in Joshua Williamson and Bruno Redondo’s Superman #9 (DC, 2023): vaultofculture.com/vault/nst…
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28 Dec 2023
The Grinch adorns a model of Whoville in red string in The Grinch (dirs. Yarrow Cheney & Scott Mosier, 2018): vaultofculture.com/vault/nst…
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23 Dec 2023
A standard obsessive/kill list wall grows throughout Silent Night (dir. John Woo, 2023): vaultofculture.com/vault/nst…
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22 Dec 2023
A classic string wall appears during the credits and in some scenes of A Creature Was Stirring (dir. Damien LeVeck, 2023): vaultofculture.com/vault/nst…
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21 Dec 2023
A classic obsessive wall appears in parts throughout the new holiday classic Thanksgiving (dir. Eli Roth, 2023): vaultofculture.com/vault/nst…
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18 Dec 2023
A classic string wall appears in Apocalypse Clown (dir. George Kane, 2023): vaultofculture.com/vault/202…
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17 Dec 2023
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16 Dec 2023
Today, after nine months of good-faith negotiations with the university, graduate workers at Yale voted to ratify a first contract, which will be effective through July 2028.
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12 Dec 2023
A classic string wall appears in “Old Friends,” a Saturday Night Live sketch that aired 9 December 2023:
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11 Dec 2023
One of the finest meditations on Point Break you will finds: heavyfeatherreview.org/2023/…
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11 Dec 2023
A classic string board appears in It’s a Wonderful Knife (dir. Tyler MacIntyre, 2023): vaultofculture.com/vault/nst…
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8 Dec 2023
Geoff Keighley, Gonzo, and Camilla the Chicken presented the Award for Best Debut Indie at The Game Awards 2023 via string board:
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5 Dec 2023
Today in "that's not how any of this works..." full-time faculty at Columbia College want to be part of mediation between the striking part-time faculty in CFAC and management. Note the galling last paragraph... chicagotribune.com/opinion/c…
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5 Dec 2023
Reminder: the Comics Studies Society is theme for this year is ₲Ⱡł₮₵Ⱨł₦₲ ₵Ø₥ł₵₴ (Glitching Comics), so come at us with your weirdest remixes and wildest subversions of the expected order. Submissions are open until January 14th, so don't delay: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-c…
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