The Institute for the Palestine Studies’ blog Palestine Square recently featured coverage by writer Khelil Bouarrouj entitled, “The Role of Comics in the Palestinian Narrative.” In it, Bouarrouj considers the impact of works including Joe Sacco’s Palestine, Leila Abdelrazaq‘s Bawaddi, Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman’s Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, and Palestinian-American Marguerite Dabaie‘s Hookah Girl, among others.
Read more here.
Through the end of August, Routledge (a Taylor & Francis Group) is offering free access to a number of its works across all of Comics Studies. There is no apparent limit to the number of titles accessed for this “Comic Book and Graphic Novel – Free Access” promotion nor any requirement for creating a login or joining a membership.
Of particular interest to religion and comics scholars might be following:
To paraphrase The Sound of Music, how do you solve a problem like Habibi?
Collected here, S&S’s own Jeff Brackett, Dave McConeghy, and A. David Lewis take to Twitter to examine the issues with bringing Craig Thompson’s 2011 graphic novel into the college classroom. (And Nick Sousanis and Chris Dowdy each make a special appearance!)
