Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social 🇭🇹 He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
Melanie Lynskey @melanielynskey.bsky.social 
The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com To see weekly new comics, daily comics from our archive and subscriber videos - patreon.com/lifeofsharks. Merchandise from - thelifeofsharks.com
Our book on Puffin books: https://tinyurl.com/mwdnusyy
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Ben Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social Comics maker, New Afrikan Anarchist, showing up late as usual
creator of Eisner winning graphic novels Black Arms to Hold You Up and Sports is Hell
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
No Context Spider-Man @nocontextspiderman.bsky.social Random moments from Spider-Man comics. Not a bot.
These panels were created by humans. Their names in alt text / reply
Sibling to podcast That 90s Spider-Man Show. Run by @whatdidjackdo
Links, pod + the discord ⇨ linktr.ee/nocontextsm
Adam Reck 🔜 NYCC @adamreck.bsky.social Co-Host of Battle of the Atom! ComicsXF Contributor! The Vanisher Has a Posse!
Dude who made Bish & Jubez!
https://linktr.ee/adamreck
Akil Wilson @akilwilson.blacksky.app I write and draw riso-comics about black folks. I also teach math. Black, bi, and nonbinary He/They 💖💜💙 Comics and other contacts on http://akilwilsoncomics.com
Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social Bestselling graphic novel writer, editor, artist, mominator. Obsessed with hedgehogs, cozy horror, and squidly octopi.
Rep'd by Dara Hyde at Hill/Nadel
site: mariah-mccourt.squarespace.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterTeaTime
Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org culture, power, speculation
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AncillaryReview
Nate Powell (SPX table W64) @natepowell.bsky.social I make comics: Fall Through/ Come Again/ Save It For Later/ March/ Lies My Teacher Told Me/ Swallow Me Whole. DIANA out Oct. 6th— preorder now!
Books/prints/original art & commissions:
https://www.nate-powell.com
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social https://www.seanhowe.com
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
CSSC-SCEBD @comicsscholars.bsky.social Outreach from the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics / Société canadienne pour l’étude de la bande dessinée. Post @ us or DM for signal boost.
Tiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social Comics and baseball - Editor of The Comics Courier & @comicsstaple.bsky.social - Host of Interesting Jobs the Podcast & @thefanfiles.bsky.social - Previously of PanelxPanel - tbabb0621@gmail.com - tiffanybabb.com
SKTCHD @sktchd.bsky.social An Eisner Award-winning subscription comic site that dives into the story behind comics: SKTCHD.com. Home of Off Panel, a weekly interview podcast: bit.ly/OffPanelPod. User of all the words. Kind of curious. By @davidharper.bsky.social.
Shelfdust @shelfdust.bsky.social Covering comic books one issue at a time
www.shelfdust.com
ComicsXF @comicsxf.com The comics criticism and journalism you crave. Home of the Battle of the Atom, BatChat and ComicsXF Interview podcasts.
scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social I like comics. Sometimes I make them.
Taller in person.
Group Editor, IDW Dark
Screencrush Producer
Closed for Submissions
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
JEM @passableghost.bsky.social I'm a librarian, teacher, scholar, writer, & geek. I cat, but don't dog. Like to cook. Will whiskey.
Will Grady @williamgrady.bsky.social PhD Dundee Uni | Comics & the American West 🏜 | Associate Editor Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics | Collections Librarian 📚 | Author of Redrawing the Western (UTP, 2024)- B Susan Bernardin @bernarsk.bsky.social Professor, Director, Oregon State University. Ed, Gender & Am. West (Routledge); Indigenous comics & lit. Red Soxer in PNW (she, her).
rebecca richardson @alphabetgoop.bsky.social
comics & zines
ig: @alphabetgooop
Lara Saguisag @laramalaya.bsky.social she/her | Pinay 🇵🇭 | totallt inept w/ copyeditimg, fact-checking, proofing my stuff, ugh
Petroculture, Climate Justice Education, Childhood and Children’s Lit, Critical Filipino Studies, Comics/Komiks
Ebru Ustundag @nomadicebru.bsky.social Critical #feministgeography. #graphicmedicine #Comics
Associate Professor @Brock UniversityGEOG
Co-chair @Graphic Medicine International Collective
Co-Editor @ACME Journal
Collaborator @Mapping Ann Marie MacDonald
Jaromir Stoll (they) @jaromirstoll.bsky.social Bi/ace & nonbinary (they) comics & zines maker (as Great Bear Comics), editor, professor, & folklorist who researches comics culture in India & internationally
Kay Sohini @kaysohini.bsky.social Editorial Assistant at Columbia University Press. Author of THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY, Penguin Random House, 2025
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753097/this-beautiful-ridiculous-city-by-kay-sohini/
Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social Indigiqueer anti-colonial scholar activist •
social work prof
📍 Tkarón:to
Lily Gladstone @lilygladstone.bsky.social Siksikaitsitaapii and Nimiipuu (Blackfeet and Nez Perce)
In some movies and shows.
Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social Founder of Red Pop! News | Indigenous Journalist & Speaker | Disability & Media Advocate | Workshops on Indigenous storytelling, justice, and mental health
www.johnniejae.com
Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social Mvskoke/Semvnole. Daughter of Kaccvlke.
Native Rights Advocate. Journalist.
She/They
I thrive in chaos which is why I don't mind creating a bit of it every once in awhile.
Personal Account
Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social Univ. HH.Am.Studies.The long 19th c;author of “Producing Mass Entertainment:The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid” (OSUP 2019).Eisner Award nominee.President of ComFor e.V. Gardening.she/her
https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/personen/meyer-christina.html
Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social she/her, Danish/Australian, PhD in comics studies and feminist theory. Author of 'Super-Girls of the Future' (Routledge 2023) and co-editor of 'Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature' (w/Emily J. Hogg, Edinburgh UP, May 2025).
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social @orionkidder@mas.to (general account)
@orionkidder@writing.exchange (just for writing)
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7
Personal account
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app 🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit at CUNY| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer
🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own
Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
Aaron Kashtan @aaronkashtan.bsky.social "Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures." – Harvey Pekar
Jo Davis-McElligatt @jcdmce.bsky.social asst. professor of black lit • immediate past prez of comics studies society • got that p.m.a.
Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social Educator. Scholar of comics, media, and popular culture. First-generation academic. Writing about transmedia storytelling and K-pop storyworlds. Dazzler aficionado. Dorothy-coded. Billlie + KiiiKiii on repeat.
Fredrik Strömberg @fredrikstromberg.bsky.social PhD, author, journalist, curator - working with the art form of comics.
Married to comics artist @hannastromberg.bsky.social.
www.fredrikstromberg.com
Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social Independent scholar and award-winning writer. Have taught at Bournemouth University, UAL and Bristol University. Mostly researching British comics, and especially the intersections of comics, gothic and children's lit. Ask me about Misty!
Benoît Crucifix @bcrucifix.bsky.social Teaching cultural studies at KU Leuven and after popular print culture at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) - profile sketch by Maria José Suarez
The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social We publish great books and journals across literary and cultural studies. Our Mad Creek imprint is home to expansive, fresh, and invigorating literary and graphic works, and Trillium publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest. www.ohiostatepress.org
Barbara Postema @barpos.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Groningen. Research on comics and graphic narrative, narrative theory, wordless comics. she/her
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com Peer-reviewed, Researcher-led Diamond open-access Journal of Comics Scholarship since 2010. Published by @openlibhums.org. Reposts, ❤s are not endorsements. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/comicsgrid
Charles Hatfield @seehatfield.bsky.social Hub, pops, grandpappy, teacher, scholar, prof, comics lover, critic.
Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social Prof of literature, culture, & media. Buckeye. Higher ed chronicler, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants, & counting pills. 🥄😵💫⚡️ 🕎 Unpopular opinions mine; the popular ones belong to the commons
http://campus-novel.ghost.io
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. @genekjr.bsky.social Librarian/Curator for hire; Cartoonist/Comics Historian/Paper Engineer; Typography/Graphic Design Fan; NASA/nerd; MSLIS/PhD; He/Him. Evanston/Chicago. Proprietor of @comicschicago.bsky.social. linktr.ee/genekjr
Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social 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 💙⚓️
Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social Comics and emoji creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨
www.visuallanguagelab.com
cream city review @creamcityreview.bsky.social University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s graduate student run lit mag. Publishing art, fiction, CNF, poetry and more since 1975!
https://beacons.ai/creamcityreview
(Cover art by Amal Azzam)
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
Frederik Byrn Køhlert @frederikbk.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Film @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Author of Chester Brown (https://edushare.ing/C) and Serial Selves (https://edushare.ing/D) + editor of Chicago: A Literary History (https://edushare.ing/E).
Jul Bermello Isusi 🏳⚧ @handle.invalid PhD from OSU. Cómics, género, discapacidad
Opositando en transición
Ourense
Viviendo en un cuerpo severamente infratatuado
Queer-Pisces-middle-child
they
Morgannnnnn @morganpodraza.bsky.social Mom | Pop-Culture Scholar | she/her
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Erika Chung 鍾嘉穎, PhD @erikachung182.bsky.social Intersectionality, Fandom & Comics | Bookworm | she/her
Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social Professor of comic books & Canadian Literature at University of Winnipeg. Writing about refugee & migrant comics, architectural imagination in comics, Canadian auto/bio.
Vault of Culture @vaultofculture.bsky.social The Vault of Culture is an edited, semi-scholarly space devoted to publishing a wide range of approaches to a variety of cultural and aesthetic objects: https://www.vaultofculture.com/
Leela Corman @leelacorman.bsky.social Painter/comics-maker/noise-rock person. GNs: Victory Parade, You Are Not A Guest, Unterzakhn. Teaching: RISD, founding instructor at http://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org. Art: http://www.leelacorman.com
Making noise with insomnies.bandcamp.com
Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero, PhD @kmsweeneyromero.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Cinema & Digital Media at UC Davis ✨ Programming for The Latinx Comic Arts Festival ✨ Social Strategist for Comics Studies Society ✨ Art by Angel Trazo
Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at University of North Dakota. Comics Studies, Digital Humanities, 20th/21st century US literature.
New Book: ATTACK OF THE NEW B MOVIES, McFarland 2023. He/him/his. 
Ian Gordon @ilgordon.bsky.social Historian. Media scholar. Comics.
Adrienne Resha, PhD @adrienneresha.bsky.social Scholar/critic writing about Arab and Muslim American superheroes. adrienneresha.com (she/her)
Zachary J.A. Rondinelli @zjarondinelli.bsky.social Ph.D. Student in Educational Studies @ Brock University | Comics + Reading & Literacy | I/S English Literature & Literacy @ Saint Paul HS | GSC CSS President | #WhoDey | #BLM | Dad | He/Him
Dave Chisholm @davechisholmcomics.com Rochester, NY. Cartoonist w/ a doctorate in music. Eisner-nominated and Ringo winner. I give readers synesthesia.
IS TED OK? collected edition September 29, 2026!
davechisholmcomics@gmail.com
http://davechisholmcomics.com/links
Sam Langsdale @samlangsdale.bsky.social Feral scholar, feminist killjoy, otter lover. She/her. https://www.samlangsdale.com
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Mav @chrismaverick.bsky.social A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Host of VoxPopcast GoshGollyWow podcasts. Culture critic and theorist/professor. PhD. I say “fuck” a lot!
Margaret Galvan @margaretgalvan.bsky.social Assoc Prof in visual rhetoric. Eisner-nominated In Visible Archives out with U Minnesota Press! 2021-22 Stanford Humanities Center faculty fellow researching LGBTQ cartoonists.
Scott Walter @slwalter123.bsky.social Librarian | Teacher | Speaker - San Diego State University Fighting against book bans and for public schools & libraries. Loves cats & dogs (since you asked)
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com 💖Assistant prof of English
💜fan studies & digital rhetoric
💙keeper of Team Rhetoric feed
💖Alliance for Refusing Generative AI Discord https://discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp
💜writing a book on fanfiction
💙”your silence will not protect you “- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Prof Wolvie @profwolvie.bsky.social Professor of Comics Studies/Queer Comics, Queer Theory, and LGBTQ+ literature. Lover of all things X-Men. Marvel Legends Collector.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Jessi Carnes @jessipants48.bsky.social Teacher and other things
Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social Indigenous academic living and working on the original homelands of my ancestors. Nu’Eta & Hidatsa. Fort Berthold | MHA Nation | Indian Country I’m a Tribal College President fond of storytelling and green chile. All opinions are my own.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Mallory O’Meara @malloryomeara.bsky.social Author • Host of Reading Glasses and Reading Smut • she/her
🌴LA
www.malloryomeara.com
Kory Riemensperger @rhetorikory.bsky.social Communications Manager at the 🐦National Audubon Society🐦 // lover of sound studies // @WakeForest '13 b.a. eng/com, '18 m.a.; still a rhetoric Ph.D. candidate @PittTweet
MariNaomi (they/them) @marinaomi.bsky.social Artsy and fartsy, not necessarily in that order
名古屋 and California
MariNaomi.com
Karen Green (she/her) @klg19.bsky.social Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Columbia University. New Yorker. Movie buff. Architecture fan. Medievalist. My life won an Eisner Award. I contain multitudes.
https://guides.library.columbia.edu/graphic-novels
(I don’t follow-back empty feeds)
A. David Lewis (he/him) @adlewis.bsky.social Graphic novelist and Associate Prof. of English & Health Humanities. Co-editor of GRAPHIC MEDICINE REVIEW.
“Neque excors nec timidus!”
🏳️🌈
Mara Thacker 🏳️🌈🦇 @maralina.bsky.social Librarian, scholar, dancer, reader, writer, and friend to dogs. I talk about comics and India a lot. 🌈 💜🦄 🤘🏼