Adrienne Resha, PhD
@adrienneresha.bsky.social
Scholar/critic writing about Arab and Muslim American superheroes. Icon by Gwen Moore. adrienneresha.com (she/her)
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#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.
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Happy Tuesday folks - if you missed out on the last Kickstarter, you can now buy print and digital copies of The Comics Courier Issue 2 from our Ko-Fi shop!
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September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy Tuesday folks - if you missed out on the last Kickstarter, you can now buy print and digital copies of The Comics Courier Issue 2 from our Ko-Fi shop!
ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...
ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...
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I feel that Shelfdust is the comics website people say they want to read - so I'd love for more people to know about it!
▶️ You can follow the site @shelfdust.bsky.social
▶️ Read it every week shelfdust.com
▶️ Subscribe (paid or free) via Patreon to get weekly email updates www.patreon.com/shelfdust
▶️ You can follow the site @shelfdust.bsky.social
▶️ Read it every week shelfdust.com
▶️ Subscribe (paid or free) via Patreon to get weekly email updates www.patreon.com/shelfdust
May 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I feel that Shelfdust is the comics website people say they want to read - so I'd love for more people to know about it!
▶️ You can follow the site @shelfdust.bsky.social
▶️ Read it every week shelfdust.com
▶️ Subscribe (paid or free) via Patreon to get weekly email updates www.patreon.com/shelfdust
▶️ You can follow the site @shelfdust.bsky.social
▶️ Read it every week shelfdust.com
▶️ Subscribe (paid or free) via Patreon to get weekly email updates www.patreon.com/shelfdust
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Happy LAUNCH DAY! The Comics Courier @kickstarter.com is BACK babeeeyyy. Head on over to comicscourier.com to pledge and nab yourself a smokin hot copy of The Comics Courier issue 2. You wont regret it!
May 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Happy LAUNCH DAY! The Comics Courier @kickstarter.com is BACK babeeeyyy. Head on over to comicscourier.com to pledge and nab yourself a smokin hot copy of The Comics Courier issue 2. You wont regret it!
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Guess what? The Comics Courier's Kickstarter is coming round the bend!!! Head over to our pre launch campaign to make sure you're up to date on our shenanigans (it took me 3 times to spell shenanigans!!!)!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2]
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
www.kickstarter.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Guess what? The Comics Courier's Kickstarter is coming round the bend!!! Head over to our pre launch campaign to make sure you're up to date on our shenanigans (it took me 3 times to spell shenanigans!!!)!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
It's Arab American Heritage Month, so here's a few @wwacomics.bsky.social pieces about Arab rep in comics, starting with "Spotlight on Nadia Shammas"
womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/08/spot...
womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/08/spot...
Spotlight on Nadia Shammas - WWAC %
Recently announced as the writer of a Ms. Marvel graphic novel, Nadia Shammas might new to some, but she isn’t new to comics.
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April 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's Arab American Heritage Month, so here's a few @wwacomics.bsky.social pieces about Arab rep in comics, starting with "Spotlight on Nadia Shammas"
womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/08/spot...
womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/08/spot...
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It's time to click the button, folks! The pre-launch page for The Comics Courier Issue 2 is live NOW! And what a lineup!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
Coming soon: The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 2]
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
www.kickstarter.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It's time to click the button, folks! The pre-launch page for The Comics Courier Issue 2 is live NOW! And what a lineup!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
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Happy New Year, pals.
It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant.
My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant.
My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2025 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 3 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published in the last year (blogs and Youtube ...
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January 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Happy New Year, pals.
It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant.
My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant.
My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Two weeks left to submit!
Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...
The Blue Age of Comics Book
Blue Age Book CFPDownload
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January 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Two weeks left to submit!
Every time someone asks me what I’m presenting at MLA I’m reminded that I named my paper after a Dwayne The Rock Johnson meme.
December 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Every time someone asks me what I’m presenting at MLA I’m reminded that I named my paper after a Dwayne The Rock Johnson meme.
Now that there are more #ComicsStudies scholars here, here's the CFP for The Blue Age of Comics Book! Abstracts due January 15, 2025.
Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...
The Blue Age of Comics Book
Blue Age Book CFPDownload
adrienneresha.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Now that there are more #ComicsStudies scholars here, here's the CFP for The Blue Age of Comics Book! Abstracts due January 15, 2025.
Hello new folks I am not online very often (for a few reasons) but first and foremost being that I am doing what Steve asked.
Please could more of you write books about comics, I want to read some more of those
November 8, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Hello new folks I am not online very often (for a few reasons) but first and foremost being that I am doing what Steve asked.
Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...
The Blue Age of Comics Book
Blue Age Book CFPDownload
adrienneresha.com
October 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero and I are very excited to share the CFP for our #comicsstudies co-edited collection: The Blue Age of Comics Book! adrienneresha.com/the-blue-age...
Proposed seminars for ACLA 2025 are up, including "How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections," which I'm co-organizing with Kate Kelp-Stebbins. Please consider submitting (or sharing with someone who should)!
CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...
CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...
How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections | American Comparative Literature Association
https://www.acla.org/how-it’s-made-image-texts-identity-interpretation-intersections
September 15, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Proposed seminars for ACLA 2025 are up, including "How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections," which I'm co-organizing with Kate Kelp-Stebbins. Please consider submitting (or sharing with someone who should)!
CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...
CFP and link to submit: www.acla.org/how-it%E2%80...
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Hello! I’d like to raise some funds for Shelfdust, a comic book website. Everyone writing on Shelfdust covers comics one issue at a time: each essay focuses on a single comic issue.
We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust
We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust
August 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Hello! I’d like to raise some funds for Shelfdust, a comic book website. Everyone writing on Shelfdust covers comics one issue at a time: each essay focuses on a single comic issue.
We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust
We pay every writer through support on Patreon! Pledging $1 a year is all it takes: www.patreon.com/shelfdust
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REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers?
REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers? - WWAC %
Adrienne Resha reviews Marvel's NYX #1 by writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and artist Francesco Mortarino.
womenwriteaboutcomics.com
August 2, 2024 at 1:04 PM
REVIEW: NYX #1 Asks Big Questions, But Does It Have the Answers?
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In March I’ll be cochairing this roundtable at the NeMLA conf! Visual Revolutions: Comics and Speaking the Unspeakable.
We seek participants who look at visual narrative through lenses of gender, sexuality, feminist, and transgender studies. cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S... ; www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html
We seek participants who look at visual narrative through lenses of gender, sexuality, feminist, and transgender studies. cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S... ; www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html
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May 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
"[Killing Ms. Marvel] was a choice for each of [the creators], even if it was a plot point mandated from above, because they decided to put their names on it despite any objections they may have had." womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/05/the-...
ESSAY: The Day Kamala Khan Died - WWAC %
Adrienne Resha writes about the death of Ms. Marvel in The Amazing Spider-Man #26 by artist John Romita Jr. and writer Zeb Wells.
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April 16, 2024 at 7:50 PM
"[Killing Ms. Marvel] was a choice for each of [the creators], even if it was a plot point mandated from above, because they decided to put their names on it despite any objections they may have had." womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/05/the-...
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CSS is excited to announce our keynotes for Glitching Comics: John Jennings & Sara Alfageeh!
Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/
Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/
April 2, 2024 at 9:12 PM
CSS is excited to announce our keynotes for Glitching Comics: John Jennings & Sara Alfageeh!
Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/
Registration is also OPEN! Join us for 5 days of virtual programming incld scholarly presentations, workshops, creator roundtables, social events & an Artists Alley comicsstudies.org/registration/
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Just THREE weeks remain to get those proposals to our virtual conference in! Bring your glitchiest, feministest ideas, and get ready for the wildest, weirdest Comics Studies Society since the last one! More info here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
January 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Just THREE weeks remain to get those proposals to our virtual conference in! Bring your glitchiest, feministest ideas, and get ready for the wildest, weirdest Comics Studies Society since the last one! More info here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
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REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3, @adrienneresha.bsky.social
REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3 - WWAC
Adrienne Resha reviews Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Carlos Gómez, and Adam Gorham's Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3.
womenwriteaboutcomics.com
January 18, 2024 at 4:38 PM
REVIEW: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #3, @adrienneresha.bsky.social
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The CFP for CSS's 2024 conference *Glitching Comics* is OPEN! Join us for a virtual conference following the work of Legacy Russell in disrupting the status quo, working against norms, and imagining new possibilities for comics. Art by Sara Alfageeh comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
December 18, 2023 at 8:31 PM
The CFP for CSS's 2024 conference *Glitching Comics* is OPEN! Join us for a virtual conference following the work of Legacy Russell in disrupting the status quo, working against norms, and imagining new possibilities for comics. Art by Sara Alfageeh comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
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The Comics Studies Society CFP for the 2024 annual conference is now LIVE! Join us in following Legacy Russell’s bold and necessary work as we explore *Glitching Comics*
See the full call for papers here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
See the full call for papers here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
CSS 2024 | Call for Papers
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November 27, 2023 at 7:07 PM
The Comics Studies Society CFP for the 2024 annual conference is now LIVE! Join us in following Legacy Russell’s bold and necessary work as we explore *Glitching Comics*
See the full call for papers here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
See the full call for papers here: comicsstudies.org/css-2024-cal...
I had a new essay go up on Shelfdust last week! It's about Man-Thing, the Everglades, and endings: shelfdust.com/2023/11/01/t...
The End (of the World) Has No End: Giant-Size Man-Thing #1
By Adrienne Resha Superhero comic books have often been preoccupied with a tomorrow that looks a lot like our today; rife with geopolitical conflict, nuclear threats, and ecological crisis. Many have ...
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November 6, 2023 at 6:25 PM
I had a new essay go up on Shelfdust last week! It's about Man-Thing, the Everglades, and endings: shelfdust.com/2023/11/01/t...