Teaching White Supremacy in Marvel Comics

I’m looking forward to presenting at the Comics Studies Society conference next week in Columbus, Ohio. Unlike previous years, I’m a member of the CSS executive board, including the subcommittee that read all of the panel abstract submissions and juggled them into mostly coherent subtopics. I didn’t vote on my own anonymous submission, but I did suggest slotting it last in a late 20th history themed panel. The schedule now includes the names of all the presenters, which was a fun reveal: Before going into detail about my paper, here’s the pedagogy-focused CFP that CSS released last winter: CSS 2026 | “Everything I Know, I Learned From Comics” In her talk at 2023’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival, Susan Kirtley breaks comics studies pedagogy into three interrelated practices: teaching about comics, teaching with comics, and teaching through comics. In partnership with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the 2026 Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society will focus…