Close to the Finish Line: What Comics Studies Students Researched in HON315-Comics, Culture & Politics

2 min readApr 26, 2019

As students in my Winter 2019 Comics Studies course at Southern Oregon University wound down their final research projects, they each created a summary post on their term-long Medium blogs. Get the story behind their systematic inquiries into the essence of comics and culture here:

Gabrielle Anderson

Surveillance and Registration and Politics, Oh My!

Historical significance of the Civil War comic event.

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Allison Blaine

Sayre Cohen

The Wicked + The Divine and One Big Spreadsheet

A quantitative analysis of the Gods appearing in the series

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Emily Eckart

For the purpose of my Honors 319 class, I have been asked to research comic books.

In class we have been discussing how the changes in social and cultural norms are represented within comic books, and…

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Eden Ferguson

#SavePoisonIvy

So here’s the thing… Researching Poison Ivy has proved to be much more complex than I originally thought. Although my…

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Kierin Harrison

Introspection & Ideology

As I read through Frank Miller’s 300 again and again, counting panels, analyzing every little detail, a shocking…

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Jesse Jo Rego

Did Kids Actually Read the Horrifying 1950’s EC Comics, or Was it Their Parents?

Recently I have started a mini ethnography study in which I am interviewing people who remember reading EC comics in…

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Jason Takarabe

M9 Week 9

Just some thoughts on the project so far

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Danya Torp

The Amazing World of Comics

So I’ve tasked myself with reading ten issues of Ms. Marvel, five of which from 1977 and the other five from Kamala…

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Madeleine Wack

The Surprising Importance of Newspaper Comic Strips

When something becomes routine it is all too easy to overlook its significance. For so many, reading the newspaper…

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Chy Wright

Breaking the Flask: Studying Imperialism in Fullmetal Alchemist

Imperialist themes are strong in Hiromu Arakawa’s manga, going so far as to be personified through it’s primary…

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Close to the Finish Line: What Comics Studies Students Researched in HON315-Comics, Culture & Politics

Surveillance and Registration and Politics, Oh My!

Historical significance of the Civil War comic event.

The Wicked + The Divine and One Big Spreadsheet

A quantitative analysis of the Gods appearing in the series

For the purpose of my Honors 319 class, I have been asked to research comic books.

In class we have been discussing how the changes in social and cultural norms are represented within comic books, and…

#SavePoisonIvy

So here’s the thing… Researching Poison Ivy has proved to be much more complex than I originally thought. Although my…

Introspection & Ideology

As I read through Frank Miller’s 300 again and again, counting panels, analyzing every little detail, a shocking…

Did Kids Actually Read the Horrifying 1950’s EC Comics, or Was it Their Parents?

Recently I have started a mini ethnography study in which I am interviewing people who remember reading EC comics in…

M9 Week 9

Just some thoughts on the project so far

The Amazing World of Comics

So I’ve tasked myself with reading ten issues of Ms. Marvel, five of which from 1977 and the other five from Kamala…

The Surprising Importance of Newspaper Comic Strips

When something becomes routine it is all too easy to overlook its significance. For so many, reading the newspaper…

Breaking the Flask: Studying Imperialism in Fullmetal Alchemist

Imperialist themes are strong in Hiromu Arakawa’s manga, going so far as to be personified through it’s primary…

Written by Erik Palmer