At the University of Mary Washington
I have gone to conventions since my freshman year of high school. My first anime convention was actually at Rust Library up in Loudoun County. It was a small convention where we got to make candy sushi, played games, had a cosplay and artwork contest, and had a manga swap where we could take as […]
Catholic representation in comics was brought back to my attention when reading Watchmen for class. I immediately recognized the Lord’s prayer at the Comedians funeral, and decided to look into what other ‘superheros’ were Catholic, and where else in the comic world has Catholicism popped up, when it wasn’t specifically a Catholic graphic novel. http://wulibraries.typepad.com/mghlnews/2013/09/a-look-at-the-watchmen.html […]
With the recent cluster of superhero movies, one can find themselves in an heroic heaven. While Justice League managed to make quite some noise for D.C it just seemed as if Marvel came back and hit twice as hard with two great movies not far from each other. First, […]
Throughout the past couple of years, memes have become more and more culturally accepted and have found usage throughout all corners of the globe that have access to the internet. Well what is a meme? Webster would define it as, “an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be […]
Before entering this class, I had very little knowledge on what exactly graphic novels were – I thought they were simply images with text used to tell a story. I was always under the impression that the text and images were separate entities from one another – that they stood alone and were meant to […]
When I was fifteen years old, the comic book shop in my local area closed down. I spent a lot of time there, buying my weight in new comics and graphic novels. They sold them for cheap, which was great because Borders and Barnes and Noble require you to trade your left arm and firstborn […]
The character of black panther was introduced in 1966 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The new marvel movie Black Panther was released in theaters over the weekend. In regards to representation, Black Panther has already exceeded other Marvel movies and has fans excited to see something different. These articles from Nerdist and the Daily […]
According to the Merriam-Webster, a comic is a group of cartoons in narrative sequence. This is a very broad term that leaves many interpretations up for discussion. Despite the ambiguous meaning over many years different authors have begun forming this category through different genres for different audiences. Manga, Graphic Novels, and Webcomics are all various […]
The movie Black Panther came out recently and was instantly a box office hit. Even though people instantly loved the movie, The director made a few big changes from the original comic book series. These changes could have made the movie very different. One change was that T’Challa takes over the throne at a younger […]