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CFP – Religion and Comics Series

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Call for Papers:
Religion and Comics, A New Book Series from Claremont Press, Claremont School of Theology

The new Claremont Press Religion and Comics series is pleased to welcome submissions for book proposals. This interreligious and ecumenical series is looking for volumes covering multiple topics related to the intersection of religion and comics, including, but
not limited to the following:

  • Representations of Christian Fundamentalism in Comics
  • Eschatology and Comics
  • Magic and Comics
  • Religion in the Comics of Grant Morrison
  • Religion in the Comics of Alan Moore
  • Religion in the Comics of Neil Gaiman
  • Religion in the Comics of G. Willow Wilson
  • Religion in Image Comics
  • Religion in Locke  & Key
  • Religion and Hellboy
  • Depictions of the Afterlife in Comics and Graphic Novels
  • Jinn and Other Spiritual Beings in Comic Books

1-2 page book proposals should be sent to series editors Matthew Brake and A. David Lewis as the following e-mail address: popandtheology@gmail.com

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Sacred and Sequential Named Runner Up in PCA “Best Electronic Research Site”

Popular Culture AssociationCongratulations to Sacred and Sequential on being named a Runner Up in the Popular Culture Association‘s “Best Electronic Research Site” Award for 2019!

At the PCA Annual Awards held in Washington, DC on Friday, April 19, 2019, the site was recognized alongside Bloomsbury Popular Music, the Bj Bud Memorial Archives, and category winner Re: Collection. Founding member A. David Lewis was present to accept the recognition along with the Douglas A. Noverr Grant for Collection Enhancement. (The funding will be used to establish a Graphic Medicine collection at Lewis’s institution MCPHS University.)

Credit goes to all our contributors and supporters. Let’s keep up the work!

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CFP – Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

(Thank you to Marc Singer, author of the new Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies, for bringing this to Sacred and Sequential‘s attention.)

Call for Papers:
Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Lexington Books (Initial Interest)

Editors: Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge

Art by Marissa GarnerMarveling Religion: Critical Discourse of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an edited volume with interest in contracting and publishing from Lexington Books. It aims to explore central themes of race, gender, religion, politics, society, love, time, space, power, soul, reality, or mind, etc. as expressed (or neglected) in phases 1-3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ultimately, the invitation is: As religious and/or theological scholars, what do our perspectives contribute to popular discourse on the MCU?

What shall we say about the snap—or any other fascinating dimension of the MCU? How might aspects of intersectionality be at work in the MCU? How does one define evil and good via the MCU?

Continue reading CFP – Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe →

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No to Jesus with superheroes; Yes to Jesus with kung-fu beheadings

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Cover to CRUCIFIED from Scout ComicsIn case you missed it, Second Coming, the series from Mark Russell and Richard Pace, was canceled by DC Comics for its Vertigo line after an outcry (like this one) amassed online for its “blasphemous content.” DC reverted the rights back to Russell and Pace to have it published elsewhere.

Meanwhile, Scout Comics has plans to release Crucified this year, and, late this month, Image Comics will release Jesusfreak featuring the Christian Messiah as “a kung fu demon slayer.” Fox & Friends does not like that he beheads his enemies in his mission, reports Newsweek.

This is to say nothing, of course, of Zombie Jesus, Jesus Hates Zombies, Jesus as an alien in Martian Comics, Jesus Christ: In the Name of the Gun, or fan-favorite Battle Pope (with sidekick Jesus).

Of course, every so often, we are treated to a Punk Rock Jesus, so one cannot be too quick to judge the latest wave of irreligious Jesus comics…

@ the intersection of religion and comics: Graphic Religion