Paul Malone and Natalie Garceau are pillars of CSSC. Paul treated us to a German series, Malcolm Max, which combines supernatural horror and black comedy with steampunk. Natalie Garceau took us into Brubaker and Phillips’ Criminal, a multi-generational noir story.

At CSSC’s Annual Conference 2025, we were treated to the works of Fabien Gorce and Sara Mizannojehdei. Gorce’s work explores Indigenous representations in early 20th-Century comic strips. Sara Mizannojehdei’s research about a public park in Montreal bridges comics with journalism.

At CSSC’s annual conference 2025, Andrew Furman talks Calvin and Hobbes’ frozen time period approach as the technology represented in the strip is typical of the mid-1970s even if those were not the years in which Bill Watterson produced the strip.

At CSSC’s annual conference 2025, René T. Bruckner presents Winsor McCay’s strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904-1913) and its documenting of the dream life of its time.

Elisabeth Pfeiffer shares her experience teaching comics in her course “Deconstructing Superheroes.”

Neale Barnholden argues that “The Outsiders” defamiliarizes the concept of the retcon in a way that relies on the attention of “super readers.”

Sofie Vlaad considers “Continuity in Crisis.”

Ishaan Selby presenting “The Aesthetics of Serialization.”

Julian Lawrence explores the vegan politics of “Wicked.”

Natalja Chestopalova asks, “What Makes a Loki a ‘Loki’”? Reality building and iterative story building!

During our ‘Anti-Heroes’ panel, George Croal explores the ecopolitics of Poison Ivy.