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Superhero Afterlife (Abridged)

February 05, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Superhero Afterlife

Story by A. David Lewis. Illustrations by Asher J. Klassen

The Superhero Afterlife
“The Superhero Afterlife.” Story by A. David Lewis. Illustrations by Asher J. Klassen

A. David Lewis is a national lecturer in Comics Studies and an award-winning graphic novelist. He holds a PhD in Religion and Literature from Boston University and is a founding member of Sacred and Sequential. His book, American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife, is now available from Palgrave Macmillan. He can be followed @adlewis.

Ashur J. Klassen is a cartoonist and comics scholar from the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, where he studies comics and comics theory in a degree blending art, art history, literature, and theology. He is a founding member of Sacred and Sequential and a researcher on Alan Moore’s Electricomics project. He can be followed @ajkomics.

Tags: afterlife, American Culture, American religion, comics, culture, death, literary theory, literature, media, popular culture, the sacred, visual culture
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