The Unbearable Blind Spots of Comics Scholarship

Abstract

Comics scholarship has a problem with representation that could be addressed if it paid greater attention to whose voices are amplified and when. This commentary is a call to attend to diversity in our discipline and for an end to the all-white, all-male comics conference, without resorting to "tokenism" as the solution.

Our Pandemic Year: On the Comics Scholarship to Come

“…Indeed, as Brenna Clarke Gray stated it clearly in the 6th volume of this journal, "comics scholarship has a problem with representation that could be addressed if it paid greater attention to whose voices are amplified and when" (Gray 2016). We take this seriously.…”