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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hey! That's me! Good reminder as any that everyone should check out the smart and award-winning project that is Sequential Scholars!

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had the pleasure of presenting @ssag.bsky.social last month in Salem on a panel about @stephengrahamjones.com ! I was fortunate to be talking through some ideas about colonial horror, Indigenous futurity, and slasher tropes in Earthdivers. And? *Had* to bring the SGJ Rules hat.

Four folks present work in an old supposedly haunted hotel room.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In “’A Gorgeous Waste;’ Solitude in Calvin and Hobbes,” Michelle Ann Abate speaks to Watterson’s unique perspective on the value of solitude and the ways that this viewpoint speaks forms something of a philosophy in the comic, one that speaks to modern concepts of isolation. #CalvinAndHobbes 1/9

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Excited for this sequence is an understatement. Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite comic by a longshot!

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@sgj.bsky.social Heya -- Longshot, but a few years back, I found a comic from MONGRELS, the classroom scene? Thought it was in Beth LaPensée's A HOWL anthology. But, it's not there (you've got a diff. rad werewolf comic in that one). Any idea if it's still online, or where it got published? Thanks!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

That John Darnielle kid, he's going places. 🧵

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Conundrum Press @conundrumpress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🎨 The Conundrum Press MiniComic Bursary for Black and Indigenous Creators is now open for submissions! (continued...)

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Multnomah County Library @multcolib.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It's time for personalized reading recommendations! In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, let's dive into Indigenous books and stories this week. #AskALibrarian

Text reading "Ask a Librarian" with colorful overlapping circles in the background.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Junji Ito’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s #Frankenstein was published in English in 2018 and won an Eisner Award for “Best Adaptation from Another Medium.” It’s both a faithful & idiosyncratic adaptation, showcasing Ito's mastery of horror storytelling within the comics medium.1/8 #Frankenstein

The English language trade dress cover for Junji Ito’s Frankenstein.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

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Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities

Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh

1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A.
2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A.
3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France
5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland
6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A.
7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A.
8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A.

Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG

Published: 25 September 2025

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool."

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Delighted to have this piece with THE @nolauren.bsky.social out in the world! Many thanks to the editorial team and our peer reviewer for helping bring the best out in this piece, and double thanks to Lauren for being such a great coauthor.

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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 📅 July 27-31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025 Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ #DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

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CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Ayyy, congrats, Alina! Great to see and learn from. Also, check the full post below on ways to help support:

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Congratulations to the Sequential Scholars team! Wonderful news indeed.

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Ayyyy, check out INKS, the now EISNER-NOMINATED comics studies journal! In celebration, they've made issue 8.3 available, which includes some incredible work, including me interviewing the incomparable @alinapete.bsky.social ! Check it out!

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Do yourself a favor: Watch the trailer. Watch it *again*. Then, share it, widely as you can. I think Zack and his collaborators have put together something really special here.

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is such a great project, and happy to have had the opportunity to review it. Check it out below!

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

He told us who he was all along - those who’ve gone along with it were good with it because it gave license to be their worst selves & because they thought the harm he would do would always be to others. My new comic also in Portuguese, w/sources & full alt text spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/

A comics page in black and white. Arranged in 5 tiers of panels, each with successively smaller panels and more per row - with the exception of the first. Opens with no panel border - silhouette of a hand in a gun position - with smoke coming from index finger. speech balloon “i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn’t lose any voters, ok?” Caption “this is perhaps the most truthful thing trump has ever said…” Same row - more than half page width panel with three drawings of trump making jerky body distortions mocking cerebral palsy. Caption “one might’ve assumed when he mocked reporter serge kovaleski that it would cross a line and be the end of him in public life.” Speech balloon “now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy!” Caption “that was naive.” Next row, first panel, slightly more than page width - closeup on trump’s open mouth, shouting “when you’re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. you can do anything.” Caption “surely, there’d be no coming back from this?” Second panel - silhouettes of tiki torch carrying rioters with their shirt collars showing. Caption “or this?” Dialogue “you also had some very fine people on both sides.” Caption “and yet…” Third row - three panels, first slightly more than a third, rest smaller still. Silhouette of trump throwing a paper towel roll like shooting a basketball. Dialogue “a great day…” Caption “c’mon…”. Second panel closeup on his lips, dialogue “why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Caption “really?” Third panel closeup on a coiled-style phone cord, dialogue “i would like you to do us a favor, though.” In background words from the first articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Dialogue “the call with ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” Caption “this must be the last straw?”
Full alt text on my site

Fourth row, four panels, Silhouette of trump holding up a bible in front of a church. Caption “and on,”. Second panel silhouette of trump at podium, behind him wreath that is symbol for the proud boys. Dialogue “stand back and stand by…” Caption “and on,”. Third panel - drawing of the qanon shamon in his headgear shouting. Dialogue as if in text balloon “be there, will be wild!” Background, more dialogue in white on black ballooons “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore. We won this election and we won it by a landslide.” Caption “and on…” this segues into fourth panel - gallows with noose and capital behind it. Big text “article I: Incitement of Insurrection”. Text over image "Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people”
Fifth/final row. Each panel is smaller and smaller till the panels become slivers, almost a line. First panel, no image, just redrawn newspaper headlines - including trump’s ad against the “central park 5” and the two verdicts against him for sexual abuse and defamation.” Caption over this "but it’s not about him. as Maya Angelou said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”” Next panel view of his bathroom with claissified documents in it and newspaper caption about indictment for that. Caption over this and next panels “which means if you’re still on board, it’s you.” Next bunch of panels break up a drawing of trump closeup from his mugshot. Headlines from his civil and criminal convictions overlay this. More quotes near the end of the series of panels, including “the water? you want me to go swimming?” “black jobs” “they’re eating the dogs… they are eating the cats.” “china virus” “scum”
Full alttext and Portuguese on my site

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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Just published! A new @proghist.bsky.social lesson by Igor Sosa Mayor & @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social doi.org/10.46430/phe... Thanks to @justinwigard.bsky.social and @regan008.bsky.social for their reviews, and to @semantic-noodles.bsky.social for editing.

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Jessica speaks the truth! Sign up below for a really great online read along of Menopause: A Comic Treatment!

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

New pub alert! I had the chance to interview the WONDERFUL @alinapete.bsky.social for the latest issue of @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social . The issue and interview is free for February 2025 (shouts out INKS editorial team). Check it out below, and thanks again, Alina! muse.jhu.edu/issue/53356/...

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Project MUSE - Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society-Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2024

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dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hey #DigitalHumanities folks, I'd love your help! I'm putting together a list of sample projects for the history senior capstone. I'm looking for projects that are: - solo-authored - by a student - sustained engagements with a research q (akin to a 15-20 pg paper) - shared with student's permission

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I was thinking how many of those urging Ai on the rest of us are people who really want to know how to answer what is expected of them. Which is so counter to what’s exciting about being human, about being curious & coming upon the unanticipated that takes you in unexpected directions. And is yours.

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Please donate to the International Comic Arts Forum TODAY and help us reach our goal of $2,000 to fund grants for emerging scholars and other initiatives in comics studies. www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

A flyer for International Comic Arts Forum's fundraising drive on Giving Tuesday. The flyer features the text: "Your donation of $30 or more will help ICAF fund grants for graduate students and international scholars in comics studies!" with a small three-panel comic of kids and parents paying two cents for an attraction.

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I'm not on here much, BUT, figured I'd share: I've got a new(ish) piece out in LA RB that I'm pretty proud of, titled "Scars Prove You Lived: On Stephen Graham Jones’s 'The Angel of Indian Lake'". Check it out, if you're so inclined! lareviewofbooks.org/article/scar...

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Scars Prove You Lived: On Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Justin Wigard reviews Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake.”

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Zack Kruse @zackkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

New Substack: “On Mutants” open.substack.com/pub/zackkrus...

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Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Hey folks! I have a new article out co-written with two of my fav MSU students. It's on critical-making pedagogy, graphic medicine, and teaching in the first in-person semester post-pandemic. Feat. downloadable lesson plans and student comics! Article link: imagetextjournal.com/from-the-cla...

The cover to student Zaria Cannon's comic, titled The Perseverance of Love, featuring a young black woman in a black dress with long wavy black hair holding a blue rose.

The cover to student Claudia Kramer's comic called Quarantining with the Kramers. The background has been colored with a purple watercolor wash, and has collaged sticky note drawings on top of a small house, a sewing machine, a coffee mug, and a graph.

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