Qiana Whitted
I write and teach about comic books and Black literature at University of South Carolina. Eisner winner. Here for good comics, romance fiction, horror films, sci-fi anything. HU ‘96 💙⚓️
- If you're going to be at MLA 2026 in Toronto this week, the Comics & Graphic Narratives Forum is hosting a social at The Beguiling on Friday at 7pm. Come out and say hello!
- Pre-ordered ❤️
- If you want more books about women leading, fighting, surviving, and defying every rule? Preorder Fire Sword & Sea. That’s how we prove demand. buff.ly/lvL8e5j
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedLook at this cool collection of comics with @benpassmore.bsky.social Ebony Flowers, and others. With an intro by @qianawhitted.bsky.social www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#comi...
- Congratulations!
- #SDCC25 The Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work goes to DRAWING (IN) THE FEMININE: BANDE DESSINÉE AND WOMEN edited by Margaret C. Flinn, published by Ohio State University Press
- Rutgers is having a summer sale! And Carol’s essay on early Black comics readers is SO GOOD
- You can get a copy of Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American #Comics, edited by @qianawhitted.bsky.social and containing essays by lots of great people (including me!) for 50% off. Use code RSUMMER50 and order directly from @rutgersupress.bsky.social
- Really looking forward to getting a copy of this book. Congrats Pat and Jorge!
- Out of the Gutters is out of the box. That is, it came in a box and I took it out. But the book is here! It was amazing to work with Jorge Santos and all our exceptional contributors, as well as the incomparable @utexaspress.bsky.social utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedEvery single thing on this page that isn’t a human figure (or object) is lettering. My work on FALL THROUGH is nominated for the “Best Lettering” Eisner Award this year— please consider voting for me in this category. Thank you for your support! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
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- Reposted by Qiana WhittedJUST STOPPING BY TO REMIND FOLKS IRONHEART DEBUTS ON DISNEY+ JUNE 24 AND IS WRITTEN BY A BLACK WOMAN CHINAKA HODGE (not Ryan Coogler)
- An incredible comic - very happy to see this one nominated!!!
- Honored to be nominated for an Eisner along with @marcuskwame.com and @struble.bsky.social for BIG JIM AND THE WHITE BOY from Ten Speed Graphic.
- So excited to see that @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social has been nominated for an #Eisner award!!! Congrats to Susan Kirtley and the entire editorial team!
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedToday ALA released the highly anticipated Top 10 Most Challenged Books List as part of the 2025 State of America’s Libraries Report. www.ala.org/bbooks
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedAndy Diggle & Enrique Breccia, Swamp Thing #1 (2004)
- I'm co-organizing a panel proposal on "Adaptation & Opposition Through Comics" for MLA 2026 in Toronto! Abstracts due by March 15: bit.ly/MLA2026comicsadaptation
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedFor Black History Month: last year I compiled a bib of sources re to Black youth's experiences in reading #comics (1930 - 1965). This work accompanied my essay on the same topic in @qianawhitted.bsky.social book Desegregating Comics. More here: caroltilley.net/2023/04/blac...
- If you also have friends and family who received the “fork in the road” offer, this piece from Lawfare is a good explainer: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedCFP: Canadian Comics. Abstracts due 3/15. 🇨🇦
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedRIP Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025. A true legend.
- I spent way too much time paused on this badly photoshopped newspaper #Severance
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so i took @robertaman.bsky.social and lars wallner's textbook TEACHING WITH COMICS, which is a survey of what teachers of comics have learned about the medium and its readers rather than an instruction manual for graphica in the classroom, and tried to find the answers everyone else is in pursuit of - I’m glad they’re taking their time. We’ll wait 😊
- Sony has no plans to release 'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' in 2025 (via Deadline)
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedIt also features a roundtable conversation about the ongoing impact and importance of @rawreader.bsky.social’s seminal essay on Black fandom journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... with me, Faithe Day, @mediadataequity.bsky.social, @andrecarrington.bsky.social, and Sascha Buchanan.
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedMeet the next generation of the Sangerye family. Bitter Root: the Next Movement drops in spring 2025!
- Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater media2.giphy.com/media/tjaTfE...
- I remember working in Waldenbooks when many of these novels started appearing on the shelves. Can’t wait to listen!
- I'm proud of the podcast I made with my friend Nicole this year- you should listen! One thing I keep thinking about- romance publishers saw a competitor begin to have success reaching Black readers and they thought "nah, we'd rather half ass it and leave money on the table." blackromancehistory.com
- Looking forward to it! #MLA25
- #MLA25 #academia #comicsstudies Come to our special session on Women in the early history of comics! We'll have the brilliant @qianawhitted.bsky.social as moderator, and a fabulous roster of presenters 🥳
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedThis book's premise is great: what if you could actually use all the warm fuzzy memories connected to the stuff you loved? Backflash gets at something the nostalgia attention ecosystem cannot. Go get this!
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedYou can pre-order my new book (retails at $21.99) for 50% off using the code JHOL24 until December 31. April 2025 release! uscpress.com/Understandin... #OctaviaButler
- Congratulations!!!!
- The Andy Warhol Foundation has announced the winners of this year’s Arts Writers Grant, & it includes me! I am so honored to be part of this cohort & have support to write my next book on lgbtq+ cartoonists! You can learn more about everyone’s projects at artswriters.org. #visualarts #queercomics
- Reposted by Qiana Whitted50% off on books by @columbiaup.bsky.social !!! If comics/feminism/Jews interests you, here’s my 2016 monograph on sale… cup.columbia.edu/book/how-com...
- I was not expecting Cross to be so good. Loved the dynamic between these two and the way DC shows up. The dinner party (ep5?) felt like a bizarre mistake but Alex’s roadtrip with his son more than made up for it… loved the whole family. Hoping we get a S2! #tvsky
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedSo this is my first attempt at a starter pack. No theme here beyond just cool comics-related people. Creators, fans, historians, podcasters, etc... Lots of folks I admire & appreciate. Hopefully the first of several. go.bsky.app/KTBX5aRat://did:plc:k5vwobjngg43lj7zuw2gudib/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lc5a2pyaww2m
- Applications are now being accepted for Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the USC Center for Civil Rights History & Culture. Excited to see this program being launched! For more info: civilrights.sc.edu/postdocs/
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedHope you'll enjoy listening! I had a lot of fun in this I terview, even though only a tiny bit made it into the final cut. #comics #childhood #history
- Reposted by Qiana Whitted"You are evеrything. You have everything you need." —Sade Adu
- I’m part of a Black Comics Club in Columbia, SC and this month we discussed the translation of Hugo Canuto’s stunning TALES OF THE ORISHAS from Brazil. The story is fairly standard but I wanted to frame every gorgeous page - highly recommend ✨
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- Reposted by Qiana WhittedI've added a few more people! LMK if you regularly post about the history of comics in whatever way: go.bsky.app/GxMkaevat://did:plc:wpppem622cnjpem3shqzyihb/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l3t5rqqgei2n
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedMy newest work is a short hybrid comic-poem, BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA. It's a personal meditation on internalizing violence and the limits of saving people. You can buy the PDF via my itch & gumroad stores: oliveoilcorp.itch.io/ballad-for-b... oliveoilcorp.gumroad.com/l/ballad
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedHello @qianawhitted.bsky.social thank you for following me. Your book is part of my research for my #StaticShock book. #bvm #Blackbooksky
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedMix complete. #SEVERANCE S2 1 17 25
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedLAST DAY! Download Splinter and Fall into You and hundreds of other FREE BLACK BOOKS from today until Saturday! This is a multi-day event that centers Black authors and readers! Make sure to mark your calendars so you don't miss out! #BRAE2024 buff.ly/40Cdb0a
- That canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about…
- That canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about.... 🤔 #blacksky
- One season! I’ll never know what was behind the wall 🥺
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedFinally made a #Blackademics starter pack! Let continue to build community here. This is part of #Blacksky so please show your appreciation to the architect, @rudyfraser.comat://did:plc:hqp33n2fqericzhtg6zprsog/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lazi54cevd26
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedWhat an outstanding graphic novel. If you wanted to know about what Ali’s life meant - not just the events, but how they shaped him, this is a concise telling. Checks boxes for racial literacy, history, and comic books as an important storytelling medium. Recommended!
- Reposted by Qiana Whittedmy audible original A Walk In the Park is now available in ebook! amzn.to/3q73zdX #Romancelandia
- Grateful to have been made aware of this infuriating situation here in SC. Here’s the link if you’d like to donate too: gofundme.com/f/fighting-injustic…
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedI'm really proud of MESSENGER: THE LEGEND OF MUHAMMAD ALI. I'm proud of the work I did on it. I'm incredibly proud of the amazing art @ronsalas created for it. It’s on sale in less than three weeks from First Second Books, available wherever you get things. And Michael Chabon likes it. Squee.
- University feature on my new edited collection! sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2023/07…
- I am so glad to see @authormsbev.bsky.social here! ❤️❤️❤️
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedI'm posting this here first!!! OMG y'all I've been publishing for a long time, but I don't often get nominated for big genre awards. This is so thrilling!!! And Other Terrors is such a great anthology -- you should check it out! Congrats to all of the nominees! I can't even find a link to post yet!
- This looks awesome…
- I'd like to mention my wife Karen Chandler's book, forthcoming in 2024, which is about African American history in children's and young-adult literature. upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/Tending-to-…
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedThe debut of my monthly column at Popverse: ADVENTURES IN THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM! Real talk. The reality of comics, and us. thepopverse.com/comic-book-industry…
- With my own money? It was probably the New Jack City soundtrack, since I recorded everything else from the radio, lol. On my Walkman for weeks… Ice-T, Color Me Badd, Christopher Williams, my mom had no idea! 👀
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedComic con is about comics again
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedAdding this to the reading stack. Edited by @qianawhitted.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Qiana WhittedI can think of no better way to honor the work of John Lewis than to spend today’s anniversary teaching young people how to tell their own stories.
- Sobering truths in this piece, though maybe blogging coming back (Substack, newsletters?) is not a bad thing. thesiswhisperer.com/2023/07/10/academic…
- Torchy!
