[The following piece was originally published for the Women Write About Comics website, and it is reposted here with the author’s permission.] Out there, somewhere, is a woman who writes about comics who wants to turn that writing to a comics dissertation or thesis, or at least I sure hope there is! The field is … Continue reading Comics Academe: How To Write a Comics Dissertation
The Amazing Adventures of the Afterbirth of Jesus is a subversive tale by Biblical scholar and Quaker Peterson Toscano and artist Joey Hartmann-Dow. A slim volume, over twenty-nine pages it tells the story of Hagar, the placenta born alongside Jesus in the stable. Key moments in Jesus’ ministry unfold as we expect in the background … Continue reading Review – Toscano and Hartmann-Dow’s The Amazing Adventures of the Afterbirth of Jesus
[The following entry is written by John Fadden, PhD., an adjunct lecturer across Western New York and frequent contributor to the Society of Biblical Literature. It is presented here with his permission.] I teach an undergraduate introduction to the New Testament course that is mostly filled with students taking the course to fulfill requirements of … Continue reading Teaching Gospel Texts and Mimesis with Superhero Stories
[The following piece was originally published at Women Write About Comics in two parts; and it is reposted here with the author’s permission, for the first time in its entirety.] My cocktail party introduction of myself is basically, “I’m a religion scholar working on a dissertation that uses a comics to interpret religious text.” Maybe it’s not … Continue reading The Tangled Relationship Between Religion and Comics
Sacred & Sequential has its own special correspondent Samantha Langsdale reporting exclusively for us from the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) – known more formally as the International Comic-Con San Diego. She has been sending us short blasts from on site concerning relevant events and products she has spotted: Today [Thursday] there is a comics … Continue reading Sacred & Sequential Report from the San Diego Comic-Con, Part 1
