Phone for Papers: Religion in the Grant Morrison Comics
Editor: Matthew Brake
Collection: Religion and Comics (McFarland)
In the 1980s, a movement recognised as the British Invasion noticed a quantity of writers and artists from the United kingdom be a part of the ranks of American comics writers to deliver some of the most well-known and enduring get the job done in mainstream comics. Some of these writers incorporate Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Grant Morrison, who have prepared these noteworthy works as Watchmen, Sandman, and Animal Male. Of their fellow so-identified as British Invaders, Grant Morrison is the only who has remained a prolific presence in comics. While Alan Moore has continually pulled absent from the marketplace in resentment and disappointment and Neil Gaiman has long gone on to grow to be a prolific prose writer, Morrison, right up until very recently, has remained a fixture of the comic ebook sector into the starting of the 2020s.
Many publications have been composed on Morrisons comics, and whilst some of the essays in these will work have touched on spirituality and faith in their comics, there is not a nonetheless volume dedicated to the examine of faith in Morrisons human body of do the job, despite the ubiquity of religious themes and imagery all through. This quantity will search for to fill that hole.
Possible subject areas incorporate but are not minimal to the next:
- Eschatology, The Omega Issue, and the Everlasting Return in JLA: Rock of Ages, JLA: Earth War III, and The Return of Bruce Wayne
- Gods and Monsters in Anonymous
- Appropriation and Representation in The Invisibles and New X-Males
- Neoplatonism and Gnosticism in Flex Mentallo
- J.R.R. Tolkien and subcreation in Animal Person
- Indigenous Spirituality and Apocalypticism in Aztek and JLA
- Dr. Damage and Augustinian Evil
- Pico della Mirandola and All-Star Superman
- New Religious Movements, UFOs, and Abduction
- Neoshamanism, New Age, and Chaos Magick in Morrisons perform
- Sacred Geometry in Batman: Gothic
- Creativeness and the Supernatural in Content!
Abstract submissions and CVs will be because of by April 30, 2024 and should really be sent to [email protected]. To start with drafts will be owing by August 15, 2024 and preliminary revisions will be due by December 01, 2024. The manuscript will be sent in for peer overview by January 30, 2025. A reviewed manuscript will be submitted by June 01, 2025.