Susan Coyne&nbsp;is a 2016 graduate of the MFA: Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts. She contributes weekly illustrations to the WBUR show&nbsp;<a href="http://radioopensource.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radio Open Source</a>. Her illustration of James Baldwin for Radio Open Source won a 2017&nbsp;American Illustration&nbsp;award and she was a 2016 recipient of an Alumni Scholarship from the School of Visual Arts. Her book&nbsp;<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/549954557/the-abcs-of-subverting-the-patriarchal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The ABCs of Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm</a>&nbsp;was featured in the 2017 Netflix movie&nbsp;The Incredible Jessica James. Her work was also included in the anthology&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Drawings-Women-Hallie-Bateman/dp/0997044454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bad Drawings by Bad Women</a>, published by TigerBee Press.

Susan Coyne

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<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/susan-coyne/">Susan Coyne&nbsp;is a 2016 graduate of the MFA: Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts. She contributes weekly illustrations to the WBUR show&nbsp;Radio Open Source. </a>

Sunday Comics

Paul Buhle co-edited the outsize oral history tome&nbsp;Tender Comrades, with Patrick McGilligan, en route to several other volumes on the Blacklistees with co-author Dave Wagner, including&nbsp;A Very Dangerous Citizen, the biography of Abraham Lincoln Polonsky. He is the author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_radicalism">radicalism</a>&nbsp;in the United States and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean">Caribbean</a>, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes. He is the authorized biographer of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._R._James">C. L. R. James</a>.

Paul Buhle

Comics as Erotic Art: Funny or What?

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

Creating a Comics Canon

<h4>Jens Lloyd is a PhD candidate in the English department at UC Irvine. His research focuses on the geographies and ecologies of rhetoric, writing, and literacy.</h4>

Jens Lloyd

Confronting Uncertain Worlds: Comics with Young Female Protagonists

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Trevor Strunk holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a focus on contemporary American Literature and emergent forms. He is currently a lecturer at DeSales University and produces critical work on gaming and the digital humanities at No Cartridge and No Cartridge Audio. His critical work is also forthcoming in Criticism, nonsite, and Electronic Book Review.

Trevor Strunk

Comics Conceptualism

<h4>Tim Peters is a writer and graphic designer whose work has appeared in The Point, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and The McNeese Review, and online at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He was a Fulbright fellow in 2009, in Argentina.</h4>

Tim Peters

Emojis, Comics, and the Novel of the Future

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

<h4>Sara Lautman is a cartoonist from New Jersey. Her cartoons and illustrated essays have appeared in Bitch Magazine, The Hairpin, The Rumpus, Baltimore City Paper, and elsewhere. MACROGROAN, her zine series, is available in independent bookstores across the continental US. MACROGROAN is also a <a title="MACROGROAN" href="http://saralautman.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>.</h4>

Sara Lautman

Approaches to Comics

<h4>Anne Elizabeth Moore is LARB's comics editor, a Fulbright scholar, a UN Press Fellow, the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of several award-winning books. Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011) received a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for best book from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation in 2012. Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004) made Yes! Magazine‘s list of “Media That Set Us Free” and Reclaim the Media’s 2004 Media and Democracy Summer Reading List. The first Best American Comics made both Entertainment Weekly‘s “Must List” and Publishers Weekly‘s Bestsellers List. Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) made Reclaim the Media’s 2007 Media and Democracy Summer Reading list and was named a Best Book of the Year by Mother Jones. Moore herself was recently called a “general phenom” by theChicago Reader and “one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the globe today” by Razorcake.</h4>
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<h4>Moore has worked with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and with people of all ages and genders on media and gender justice work in the US. Her journalism focuses on the international garment trade. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has lectured around the world on independent media, globalization, and women’s labor issues. Co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches in the Visual Critical Studies and Art History departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</h4>
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<h4>The multi-award-winning author has also written for The Baffler, N+1, Al Jazeera, Good, Snap Judgment, Bitch, the Progressive, The Onion, Feministing, Snap Judgment, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. She has appeared on CNN, WNUR, WFMU, WBEZ, Voice of America, GritTV with Laura Flanders, Radio Australia, and NPR’s Worldview, and others. Moore mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2011 and in 2012 participated in Artisterium, the Republic of Georgia’s annual art invitational. Her work appeared in the 2008 Whitney Biennale, has been exhibited in the Spinnerei in Leipzig Germany in 2010, and made up one of the first conceptual art exhibitions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2010. Her work has been featured in USA Today, Marie Claire, Phnom Penh Post, Portland Mercury, Bust, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out Chicago, Hyphen Magazine, Truthout, Make/Shift, Bookslut, Today’s Chicago Woman, New York Review of Books, Windy City Times, Print Magazine, and the New York Times, among many more. She has lectured at dozens of universities, libraries, and conferences around the globe.</h4>

Anne Elizabeth Moore

NEW COMICS

<h4>Greg Baldino lives and writes in Chicago where he looks after a persistent succulent and an aggregating plethora of books and paper. He is a regular contributor to Newcity, Bleeding Cool, and Rain Taxi.</h4>