Collection of academic articles in comics studies.

Articles I liked:

The Comics Workforce by BENJAMIN WOO

Who are the people, gender-wise and racially, who make comics and what kinds of jobs do they have?

Learning to “Speak without Shame” - A Feminist Response to Gendered Violence in Priya’s Shakti by VALERIE WIESKAMP

Talks about Priya’s Shakti, a comic dealing with sexual violence and what comes after it meant for younger audiences as a means of evoking real social change at scale in response to a grusome and highly publicized case of sexual violence in India in 2012.

Reading this academic article on the subject almost brought me to tears.

Follow the Readers - Leadership Elections in the Silver- and Bronze-Age Legion of Super-Heroes by CHRISTOPHER J. GALDIERI

A fun history of a superhero comic, the Legion, involving a group of super heroes with regularly held in-universe elections to determine the leader of the group and the real world reader-submitted votes that determined who would get elected and having an impact on the fictional story.

Pirates and Publishers - Comics Scanning and the Audience Function by KALERVO A. SINERVO

A short history on the brief period of time (2000s and early 2010s) where the illegal digital scanning of comics was at its peak.