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  I Liked the Movie, So What Comic Should I Read?

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  Greg M. Smith Georgia State University

  August 01, 2011

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  for example, at two pages from artist J.H. Williams’s spectacular run in Detective Comics. Williams’s ... it hard for a new reader to plop down in the long-running narratives of superhero comics, but the ... learn that language when entering the comics world. Click on the images for a higher resolution view ...
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  Power Play in Cosplay: Performative Femininity

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  TaLynn Kel N/A

  September 09, 2018

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  currency that I’ve opted out of because its price is too high. Because I’ve learned that people view pretty ... “pretty” was still dangerous. Then I learned about cosplay. It wasn’t the massive pop-culture fandom that ... confident I became in my choices. I learned to trust myself more and that has extended into many parts of my ...
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  "Avengers" Art Contest: Professionalizing Fans or Fanning Professionals?

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  Lesley Willard Emerson College

  September 24, 2016

  collaborate on a limited-run Avengers Origins comic that would be showcased at SDCC, sold in stores, and ... artists and gifted a ticket to Comic-Con for a photo-op-cum-signing session. Long-running blockbuster ...
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  Prelude to a Remix: Damon Lindelof’s Instagram Letter to Watchmen’s Wary Audience

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  Sarah Riddick Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  September 16, 2020

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  140." It is 1988. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ maxiseries Watchmen finished its run a few months ago, ... not interested and that perhaps he should let sleeping dogs lie with hopes they will eventually be run ...
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  The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic!

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  August 04, 2011

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  The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic! movies Motion Comics comics Curator's Note In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported that DC Comics would begin to utilize a "new kind of Web entertainment" called motion comics to "unlock va ...