In November of 2013, S&S’s own Hussein Rashid wrote for CNN’s Belief Blog about the coming of a new Ms. Marvel: teenage, Muslim, and from Jersey. He predicted she’d have a “level of complexity [that] bodes well for the […] character.” Read here.
ISIS Death Fatwa for The 99 Creator
Comic Book Resources‘ Robot 6 is among several sites reporting that ISIS (working under the name of “The Islamic Caliphate”) has called for the death of comic book creator of The 99, Dr. Naïf Al-Mutawa. Read more here.
Sacred Matters’ “The Bible in Comics: Genesis”
S&S’s own Beth Davies-Stofka examines the ultimate origin story, the Book of Genesis, in many of its comic book manifestations for Sacred Matters. Read here.
ISLAMiCommentary’s “The Fight Begins for Ms. Marvel”
With the launch of G. Willow Wilson and Sana Amanat’s Ms. Marvel series featuring a teenage, American Muslim girl, S&S’s A. David Lewis discusses what’s at stake on ISLAMiCommentary. Read here.
Representing Religion in Comics, Spring 2015 at BSU
This Spring, S&S’s Dr. Jeffrey Brackett will lead a semester-long examination of comics through the lens of religion (and vice versa) at Ball State University. Details here.
