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Super-Jesus vs. 1970s Islam
The Cremation of Jewish X-Man Kate Pryde
Prominent Muslim Characters Continue to Expand in Comics
Colgate Research Looks at Afro-Caribbean Comics Characters

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2021

January 28 Meredith Finch on The Book of Ruth

2020

October 12 Super-Jesus vs. 1970s Islam
August 24 The Cremation of Jewish X-Man Kate Pryde
August 16 Prominent Muslim Characters Continue to Expand in Comics
August 14 Colgate Research Looks at Afro-Caribbean Comics Characters
August 11 Pilgrimage to Nerd Prom in Esquire
August 5 The Kingstone Comics Story
August 1 Jane Foster: Valkyrie – Glimpsing Transcendence in Death
July 31 Jewish Grandpa Created Legendary Supersoldier
July 29 Interfaith-ish Delivers Again on Comics
July 28 Bosch Fawstin and “Evil”
July 24 CBR’s Superhero Jewishness (emphasis on the -ishness)
July 3 Deena Mohamed: “It’s kind of a myth that people won’t support ‘diverse’ work.”
July 2 S&S Returns!
February 19 TheoCon 2020, “Steel City Edition” – Save the Date
February 15 Religion in the MCU Diegesis
January 28 Next Up for Superheroes: Religion?
January 3 Sacred and Sequential’s Top Overall 2019 Stories

2019

December 30 Sacred and Sequential’s Top 2019 Stories
December 24 Religion, Spirituality, and Comics – A Sampler (Part 3 of 3)
December 22 Hannukah in Comics, by the Numbers
November 8 Religion, Spirituality, and Comics – A Sampler (Part 2 of 3)
October 29 Keshet Calls for LGBTQ Jewish Superheroic PoC
October 28 Depictions of Jesus in Comics – the Sioux City Reporter Speaks to Dr. Coody
October 9 Religion, Spirituality, and Comics – A Sampler (Part 1 of 3)
August 20 Sacred and Sequential Recognized as ISSN 2688-5336 (online)
August 14 The Atlantic Questions Amar Chitra Katha
June 11 ReligionProf James F. McGrath Talks with A. David Lewis on Kismet and More
June 3 Tony’s Own Thanks: UPDATE to “Thank You, Dr. Yinsen” [SPOILER Warning]
May 22 Thank you, Dr. Yinsen
April 25 CFP – Religion and Comics Series
April 23 Sacred and Sequential Named Runner Up in PCA “Best Electronic Research Site”
March 20 “New Zealand will give him nothing, not even his name.“
March 13 CFP – Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
March 12 No to Jesus with superheroes; Yes to Jesus with kung-fu beheadings
January 18 Kingstone Asks: WILL THE REAL JESUS PLEASE STAND UP?

2018

December 19 Religion News Service Examines KISMET, MAN OF FATE
December 19 “Happy!” Christmas: Possibly the Weirdest Advent Blog EVER
December 6 When it comes to the classroom, not all comic Bibles are created equal
December 3 Superheroes Do Hanukkah
November 30 Comics Academe: How To Write a Comics Dissertation
November 29 Discussing the First Muslim Superhero’s Return to Comics
November 5 Review – Toscano and Hartmann-Dow’s The Amazing Adventures of the Afterbirth of Jesus
September 19 UPDATE: Islamophobic Cartoon Contest Canceled
September 18 Jews and Comics in Canada this October
August 26 Teaching Gospel Texts and Mimesis with Superhero Stories
August 2 CFP: Religion and the Marvel Universe (9/15/18)
June 12 Return of Islamophobic Cartoon Contest
May 1 UPDATE: Two Universities Vie for Largest Collection of Indian Comics in U.S.
April 6 Superman as Jewish Assimilation, not Exodus
February 27 More Than You Ever Wanted to Know on Black Panther and Religion
February 1 How Does Kingstone Answer “Why Comics?”
January 19 Comics and Islam, Live at MICE 2017 – 004 Sacred & Sequential Audio
January 13 Elizabeth Coody and Biblical Shock through Comics – 003 Sacred & Sequential Audio

2017

December 28 What Do Superheroes Tell Us about Ourselves?
November 28 Responses to MUSLIM SUPERHEROES, Live at AAR 2017 – 002 Sacred & Sequential Audio
November 7 UPDATES: Baron Leaves Alt-Right “Based Stick Man” Comic, Alt★Hero Looms
October 16 Kleefeld Questions Chuck Dixon on Racism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, etc. of White Nationalist ALT-HERO
October 4 The U.S.’s Largest Indian Comics Collection in Is in Illinois
September 22 The Tangled Relationship Between Religion and Comics
September 15 Martin Lund on the Possibilities of “Pantheonic Bricolage”
September 13 Writer Mike Baron on Based Stick Man, the Alt-Right, and Free Speech – 001 Sacred & Sequential Audio
August 28 Ron Regé on Drawing from (Outside) the Qur’an
July 25 Sacred & Sequential Report from the San Diego Comic-Con, Part 2
July 21 Sacred & Sequential Report from the San Diego Comic-Con, Part 1
July 13 Review – Arnaudo’s The Myth of the Superhero
July 10 Happy Anniversary to Religion in American History
July 10 The Complicated Theology of a Wonder Woman
June 19 A. David Lewis Discusses Islam, Comics, Syria, and Flintstones with Boston’s NPR
May 23 Reexamining “Our Gods Wear Spandex,” Superheroes as Occult Gods
May 22 The First Muslim Superhero
May 18 Reader Recommendations: Archangels Comics, Volumes 1-3
May 1 Returning to the Religious Studies Project’s Comics Warning
April 11 Hugh Jackman Is Not a Mohel
April 3 Bible Graphic Novel Is a Christian Book of the Year Finalist
February 24 Elizabeth Coody and Christine Hoff Kraemer, Unquestionably “Women Write About Comics”
February 15 Tonight in Tel Aviv: Assaf Gamzou on “Super-Heroes and the Jewish People”
January 19 Muslim Heroines (and Their Comics Fans), Assemble!
January 9 Got Comics? “Golem” Found, Always Seeking More!
January 6 Alt-Right Traces in Comics Publisher’s Past, Now Marketing Trump?

2016

December 29 Top 5 Religion & Comics Posts of 2016
December 23 The Daredevil of 2016, the Faithful of 2017?
November 16 Didactic or Dynamic? Superheroes from the Middle East
November 9 UPDATE: Ms. Marvel and the Good Business of Democracy
November 7 Ms. Marvel and the Good Business of Democracy
October 31 Four-Color Christ Jesus
October 25 Jack T. Chick dies at 92
October 25 A Superhero against…Goyim?
October 13 Questioning Frank Miller and Superman’s “Jewish Essence”
October 13 Grammy Winner, Now Christian Comics Creator
October 6 Jordanian Activist Assassinated Before Cartoon Blasphemy Trial
September 15 “I can’t give my superhero a Muslim name.”
September 15 Nebraska Meet-Up for Superheroes & Religion
September 6 MUSLIM SUPERHEROES Begins “In Earnest”
August 22 Easter Treasure – The Catholic “Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact”
August 15 Martin Lund Reconstructs Superman’s Judaism
August 10 Cloning Enchantment: Jesuses After Climate Change
August 8 Brooklyn’s Jewish Comic Con & Gentiles
July 13 New Charlie Hebdo Threats, Outrage
July 1 “Chag Sameach, Mother-#@%*^&!”
May 10 “This is the Avengers, not the God Squad!” (Sequart.org)
May 7 God’s Comic Book Profile
May 2 “Comics & Sacred Texts” Event This Friday!
April 8 Review – The Goddamned #3: The Mark of Cain (Sequart.org)
April 1 Washington University Podcast Covers Religion and Comics
March 30 Having Fun with the Great Flood: Noah’s Brother’s Ark
March 24 The Martian Chronicles of Julian Darius, Part III
March 22 Superpowered, Mormon, and Gay: Brian Anderson’s STRIPLING WARRIOR
March 8 The Martian Chronicles of Julian Darius, Part II
March 7 Third Time’s the Charm: Steve Bergson on Barry Deutsch
February 29 The Martian Chronicles of Julian Darius, Part I
February 25 DHQ Features “Graphic Images of YHWH,” Adapting Ezekiel to Comics
February 19 Announcement of Open Membership for New Comics Studies Society
February 9 Sacred Texts: Lovecraft, Alan Moore, and Religion in PROVIDENCE
February 2 Jews and Comics: The Decade in Review
January 27 Sana Amanat Reveals What Ms. Marvel Would Say to Donald Trump
January 22 Sacré & Séquentiel: The New, French-Language “Sacred and Sequential”
January 7 Transcript: Comix Scholars List Discusses Indian Comics and Manga

2015

December 11 L.A. Artist Merges Comics, Superheroes, Modern Judaism, and Women
December 10 Panels Challenges Readers: Engage Comics About Other Religions
November 18 Join Sacred & Sequential’s Mini-Meet-Up at #AARSBL15 in Atlanta!
November 9 The Marriage of Theology and Graphic Novels
November 6 Who Gods the God/Men?, Part II (Or, Prepare Ye the Way of the Rao)
October 28 Brian Cronin on “That Time the Greek Gods Fought Jesus”
October 28 Comics Alternative Podcast Features Roundtable Discussion on Religion and Comics
October 16 Jews & Comics NYC panel: “Might Makes Right?”
October 5 Palestine Square Explores “The Role of Comics in the Palestinian Narrative”
October 1 Understanding the Refugee Crisis through Comics (Panels.net)
September 21 Comics and Religious Education in “Studies in Comics”
September 21 Religious Revivals and the Great Awakening of Religion & Comics
September 14 Review of HOLY F*CKED #1: “Provocation for Provocation’s Sake” [Redux]
September 9 Graphic novel “Our Friend Satan” Meets Funding Goal
August 14 New Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art Exhibition on Comics
July 22 Eid Mubarak! A Look at Muslims in Comics (Panels.net)
July 15 Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics Wins Eisner Award
July 13 What an Old Lady Can Do for the Greek Gods
June 24 CFP – Sacred Texts and Comics: Religion, Faith, and Graphic Narratives
June 24 Cyclops in Homeric Myth and Marvel Comics
June 19 Who Gods the God/Men? (Or, Is There a Chapel in the Fortress of Solitude?)
June 17 The Cthulhu Cosmology in Hellboy
June 16 Funding (Another?) Super Sikh
June 15 Limited-Time Access to Routledge’s Comics & Religion Scholarship
June 15 Congratulations Are in Order
June 14 ‘Antisemitism Problem’ In Marvel Movies? No, but…
April 26 Discussing and Debating HABIBI
April 22 Talking with Charles Schneeflock Snow on SORDID CITY BLUES
April 21 COMICS WORTH READING on “The Tithe” #1
April 16 Review of HOLY F*CK #4: “…I Still Want to Read It”
April 14 What Makes A Scholar’s Pull-List? Part 1
April 13 VCU’s Library Exhibit: Comics & “Religious Imagination in Popular Culture”
April 3 Call for Papers (CFP): Muslim Superhero collection
March 27 Asher J. Klassen on the Controversial BATGIRL Cover
March 20 Religion and Comics at Regional AAR, Rocky Mountain/Great Plains
March 16 Review: Marvel’s CHAOS WAR, an Epic (of Sorts)
March 13 Review of HOLY F*CK #3: “Slouching Toward Satire”
March 4 David Herman Talks about “Sabraman”
March 4 Review of HOLY F*CK #2: “Provocation for Provocation’s Sake”
February 27 Spelling Counts
February 6 Asher J. Klassen Discusses Comics, Semiotics, and Islam – Draws Superhero Afterlife
February 4 Paul Robertson Gives an Eye to Cyclopses
January 22 Review of HOLY F*CK #1: “Small chuckles” but “already done”
January 14 To Be or Not to Be Charlie
January 13 Carla Speed McNeil Shows That “We’re All Charlie”
January 8 S&S Statement on CHARLIE HEBDO News

2014

December 1 “A War of Mythologies”: Jordanian Comic Creator Tackles Extremism
November 22 Knights Templar + Prince of Persia = Heist Comic
November 22 Where’s the “Muslim Wrath” a Year into Ms. Marvel?
November 19 The Superhero Afterlife Is Here!
November 13 Spider-Man the Crypto-Jew
November 5 Expletives and Sacrilege with Nick Marino and “Holy F*ck”
October 30 Jesus, Comics, and the Gospels from Scott S. Elliott
October 25 Sequart’s The Last Temptation of Superman
October 19 Jeet Heer on the Inherent Gnosticism of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
October 14 Monty Python and ZERO THEORUM Director Sees Superheroes Replacing Religion
September 30 Sequart Reviews A. David Lewis’s New Book: “particularly timely”
September 29 Comics Culture in Bangladesh
September 8 Wednesday Theology: Daring to Address God
September 4 The ISIS Terrorist Who Loves Superheroes
September 1 Deicide Abounds in “God Is Dead”
August 22 Mapping Heaven, Hell, and Superheroes
August 17 Clark Kent’s More Likely a Methodist
August 13 Fifth Anniversary of the Religion and Graphica Collection at Boston University STH Library
August 11 Millar (vs. Morrison’s) Christian Use for Swamp Thing
August 7 Material Religion of Comic Books Discussed Immaterially on Twitter
August 2 Medieval Zombie Comics?
July 28 The Tangles of Comics and Religion
July 24 Joshua Hale Fialkov: Comic Books’ Secret Religious Man?
July 20 Deseret News Covers Comics and Faith
July 19 Qahera Is Not Ms. Marvel
July 15 From God to Goddess: Thor Genderswaps
July 15 Predictions for Ms. Marvel on CNN
July 12 ISIS Death Fatwa for The 99 Creator
July 10 Sacred Matters’ “The Bible in Comics: Genesis”
July 10 ISLAMiCommentary’s “The Fight Begins for Ms. Marvel”
July 10 Representing Religion in Comics, Spring 2015 at BSU
June 25 As we build the site…
January 28 ISLAMiCommentary’s “Comics & Dialogue” Launches

2013

December 7 Yiddish Anthology from Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle
November 28 Sequart on Comics’ Christian Adaptations
November 5 Ignore Those Pesky Pages…
November 3 After the Crash…
October 18 Turban, not Wingtips
August 14 Islam and Comics: Sensing a Trend?
August 13 Is the Pope Catholic? Better Yet, Is the Hulk?
August 13 Alan Moore’s Gift to Religion and Comics Scholar
August 1 Comics at Universities, Protested and Praised
July 30 Maronite Monk Writes “The Truth It Out There” Graphic Novel
June 26 Sermon Stumping for Man of Steel
June 13 Questionable Content Asks: Do Robots Dream of Electric Gods?
June 12 New Perspectives Needed on Eve of “Man of Steel”?
May 22 ReligionLink Targets Comics, Misses a Lot
May 3 Comics Remain Important — and Varied!
May 1 Boston Professor Uses X-Men Character Costume to Illuminate Islamophobia after Marathon Bombing
March 18 Huffington Post Features Muslim Superheroes — VOTE NOW!
March 4 The Hero Worship of Professor Robert M. Price
February 1 Library Journal Masturbation Specialist Recommends Graven Images
January 31 Batman and the Tibetan Comic Book of the Dead
January 8 Batman for only Judeo-Christians, implies politician
January 7 Beast’s (Silly?) Atheism
January 4 Old Shul Justice

2012

October 4 Dan Smith’s old Old Testament
October 4 Muslim Superheroism and the New Green Lantern
October 2 Heeb Magazine Asks for Jewish Superhero on Screen
October 2 Harvey: Keep Christian Kids Away from Comics’ Gay Agenda
August 10 The Oatmeal Notes “How to Suck at Your Religion”
June 18 Dapper Men
June 17 CBR Thread Questions “True Diversity” of Superhero Religion
June 17 Annotated Bibliography for Jews and Comics, “Imperfectly”
June 16 Religion and Comic Strips Talk by Bible Expert
June 15 Bosch Fawstin Takes Further Pigman Adventures Digital
February 29 Best Tweet of the Week
February 2 Comics Research Bibliography 2012 Print Edition
January 28 CFP: Comics, Religion & Politics
January 28 CFP: Religion and Doctor Who: Time, Space, and Faith

2011

October 9 Kickstarter Campaign to Support Muktatafaht: A Middle East Comics Anthology
October 3 The 99, Captain Israel, Habibi, Holy Terror, and More…
September 20 CFP: On the Scholarship of Religion and Comics
August 31 Gene Luen Yang on Comics and Christianity
August 26 Superheroes in Stained Glass and on Liturgy
August 24 R.I.P. Hellboy?
August 16 NPR Covers Grant Morrison’s SUPERGODS
August 9 Rao Wants to Know: Gail Simone Makes History/Herstory…for Religion?
August 6 Rao Reads the Blogs
August 2 Deepak Chopra and Gotham Chopra’s Superhero Book
June 29 Rao Wants to Know: Why No Zoroastrianism?
June 24 Muslim Superheroes
June 8 Even More Foreskin Man
June 8 New Releases on Hinduism from Wilco Picture Library
June 4 More Foreskin Man
May 25 Converting to Islam Its Own Sin?
May 20 Foreskin Man
May 10 Whose God Is Thor?
May 2 Rao Wants to Know: Bin Laden
April 21 Writer Joshua Dysart on Religion in Unknown Soldier
April 4 Comics and Muslim Identity at Harvard
March 17 Welcome Faith in Four Colors
March 16 Father of Indian Comics Dies
March 8 Nightrunner as per The Daily Show
February 28 Female Orthodox Jewish Monster-Slayer
February 24 R.I.P. Dwayne McDuffie
February 8 Are Jewish Comics AntiSemitic?
February 5 More on Nightrunner, the Muslim Batman of Paris
February 4 Atheist Saviors
February 2 Religion in Comics on Fanboy Radio
February 1 Indian Comics
January 27 Sequart on “The God of Preacher”
January 27 Jewish-American Literature: The Graphic Novel offered at University of Texas El Paso
January 12 Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women
January 4 The (Controversial) Muslim French Batman – or French Muslim Batman