Qiana Whitted

Happy Birthday, Ms. Bev!!! ❤️

MLA's Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum: After hours comics shopping and socializing at The Beguiling. Light snacks and beverages available for purchase. Friday Jan. 9, 2026, 7-8:30pm, The Beguiling, 319 College St., Toronto.

If you're going to be at MLA 2026 in Toronto this week, the Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum is hosting a social at The Beguiling on Friday at 7pm. Come out and say hello!

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Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2 Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...

Look at this cool collection of comics with @benpassmore.bsky.social Ebony Flowers, and others. With an intro by @qianawhitted.bsky.social www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#comi...

Congratulations!

Rutgers is having a summer sale! And Carol’s essay on early Black comics readers is SO GOOD

Really looking forward to getting a copy of this book. Congrats Pat and Jorge!

Every single thing on this page that isn’t a human figure (or object) is lettering.

My work on FALL THROUGH is nominated for the “Best Lettering” Eisner Award this year— please consider voting for me in this category. Thank you for your support! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

vote for the homie.

JUST STOPPING BY TO REMIND FOLKS IRONHEART DEBUTS ON DISNEY+ JUNE 24 AND IS WRITTEN BY A BLACK WOMAN CHINAKA HODGE (not Ryan Coogler)

An incredible comic - very happy to see this one nominated!!!

Cover of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society

So excited to see that @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social has been nominated for an #Eisner award!!! Congrats to Susan Kirtley and the entire editorial team!

top 10 most challenged books of 2024 banner showing small previews of some library book covers.

Today ALA released the highly anticipated Top 10 Most Challenged Books List as part of the 2025 State of America’s Libraries Report.

www.ala.org/bbooks

That sounds like an awesome class! @bwcostello.bsky.social might be interested too

I might need to make this my phone wallpaper 😩

Andy Diggle & Enrique Breccia, Swamp Thing #1 (2004): “I’m fine”

Andy Diggle & Enrique Breccia, Swamp Thing #1 (2004)

ADAPTATION and OPPOSITION through COMICS A session proposed for MLA 2026 How do comics adaptations riff on, rewrite, or supplant existing canonical works and literary forms? Why are these resistant adaptations often perceived as a threat? Send 300-word abstracts and short bios by March 15, 2025 to Robert Nguyen guyen@lycoming.edu and Qiana Whitted whittedq@mailbox.sc.edu. View the complete call at bit.ly/MLA2026comicsadaptation co-sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives and Adaptation Studies.

I'm co-organizing a panel proposal on "Adaptation & Opposition Through Comics" for MLA 2026 in Toronto! Abstracts due by March 15: bit.ly/MLA2026comicsadaptation

Two black youths read copies of Police Comics (May 1942), while sitting on a building stoop in Southwest Washington, DC. Photograph by Gordon Parks, November 1942, for the Farm Security Administration.

For Black History Month: last year I compiled a bib of sources re to Black youth's experiences in reading #comics (1930 - 1965). This work accompanied my essay on the same topic in @qianawhitted.bsky.social book Desegregating Comics. More here: caroltilley.net/2023/04/blac...

No clear legal authority supports OPM’s plan. It does not use the existing VSIP program to establish the buyout. It promises funds to employees that have not been appropriated by Congress. Finally, it intends for agencies to authorize a period of administrative leave that exceeds current limits. In theory, Congress could ratify the Trump administration’s program by appropriating the necessary funds and authorizing longer administrative leave for employees who resign. Employees who elect to resign, however, take a gamble on the willingness of Congress to authorize the program.

Breaking Down OPM’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Email to Federal Workers Though the subject line borrows a phrase from Musk’s Twitter email, the federal government is not a private company, and its HR policies are arcane and legally binding.

If you also have friends and family who received the “fork in the road” offer, this piece from Lawfare is a good explainer: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...

CFP: Canadian Comics. Abstracts due 3/15. 🇨🇦

RIP Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025. A true legend.

Newspaper page from the Apple+ show Severance with the headline: “Innies” Blow The Whistle.

I spent way too much time paused on this badly photoshopped newspaper #Severance

Critical Thinking: The problem (with comics) Critical Thinking inquires: can the TEACHING WITH COMICS academic textbook clear up today's comic book issues?

so i took @robertaman.bsky.social and lars wallner's textbook TEACHING WITH COMICS, which is a survey of what teachers of comics have learned about the medium and its readers rather than an instruction manual for graphica in the classroom, and tried to find the answers everyone else is in pursuit of

I’m glad they’re taking their time. We’ll wait 😊

It also features a roundtable conversation about the ongoing impact and importance of @rawreader.bsky.social’s seminal essay on Black fandom journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... with me, Faithe Day, @mediadataequity.bsky.social, @andrecarrington.bsky.social, and Sascha Buchanan.

Meet the next generation of the Sangerye family. Bitter Root: the Next Movement drops in spring 2025!

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

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Flyer for Civil Rights Scholars Postdoctoral Program. Priority deadline Dec. 15, 2024. Final deadline Jan. 31, 2025. Address for more info: civilrights.sc.edu/postdocs/

Applications are now being accepted for Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the USC Center for Civil Rights History & Culture. Excited to see this program being launched! For more info: civilrights.sc.edu/postdocs/

I remember working in Waldenbooks when many of these novels started appearing on the shelves. Can’t wait to listen!