Get to know more about UT English PhD student Ivan Martinez and his thoughts on monsters, comics, and teaching.

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Join us as we get to know more about First Year student and Social Media Extraordinaire, Anna Cho!

Student Spotlight: Danielle Garcia-Karr by Latinx Pop Lab

Catch up with Ana, Sam, and Dr. Anthony R. Ramirez as they talk about their reaction to the hit Netflix show Wednesday.

Get the tea on what's happening this semester at the Latinx Pop Lab and learn a little more about our history!

Intro and Outro music by Music by Oleg Fedak from Pixabay

Jared Gardner shares his journey with comics and how this lead to his formal study of comics as a professor. He discusses his work on Charles Schulz, the cross-pollinating history of film and comics, as well as his work as an editor of the journal Inks and the comics series with OSU Press. Discussion includes transmedial storytelling, Board Games, cartoon strips, and more.

African American cartoonists and comics; representation; identification; stereotypes; discourses of citizenship; how comics as a medium (sequentiality and framing) allow readers to think of past, present, and future in relation to identity; histories of being excluded from history and drawing black people into history; political belonging. Discussion also includes Jennifer Cruté's cartoons, Brumsic Brandon Jr.'s Luther, Kyle Baker's Truth, Gene Yuen Lang's American Born Chinese, HBO's series, Watchmen, Jeremy Love's Bayou, Sanford Green and David Walker's Bitter Root.

“How have cartoonists made use of caricature to comment on black people (stereotypes broadly speaking) in conversation with idealizations and how these respond to broader discourses of citizenship"

OSU Professor Sean O'Sullivan Talks: Narrative Theory, Seriality, Literature, Film, & TV. Discussion includes director Mike Leigh, Sopranos, Charles Dickens, The Wire, Deadwood, and so much more!

Deman shares his journey with comics, visual semiotics, Orientalism, and margins of alternative comics. Along the way, Deman discusses Scott McCloud, comics in the 1990s and its seeking of legitimacy, pornography and sexuality in comics, Sam Kieth's Maxx, Aline Kominsky Crumb's It Ain't Me Babe, Chris Claremont, Harley Quinn Vol. 3, #8--as well as the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, his blog, and his "The Claremont Run" big data research lab.

"The big 3 (Maus, Persepolis, Fun Home) grows from a contextual history of insecurity in comics studies as a field."

OSU Professor Katra Byram Shares her Journey and Research on Narrative, Memory, Identity, Language, Gender & Spaces, Small Houses--and her book Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator with OSU Press.