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The End of a Comic Book Store and What it Meant to the Community – Bigkatts
The End of a Comic Book Store and What it Meant to the Community – Bigkatts
By Nicholas Yanes
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Yet all I hear is no one wants to make R-rated comedies anymore. https://lnkd.in/g3qQFzRu
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The curtain has closed on summer box office, a season that generated $3.6 billion in domestic box office despite a rocky start in May and early June.…
The curtain has closed on summer box office, a season that generated $3.6 billion in domestic box office despite a rocky start in May and early June.…
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Kate Moreland I think Joe should have one of these for Hazel to drive him around town... :)
Kate Moreland I think Joe should have one of these for Hazel to drive him around town... :)
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Experience
Education
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University of Iowa
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Activities and Societies: Member of the Society for Professional Journalists; published several pieces, including the co-edited book, "The Iconic Obama"; was on the English Department's text book committee; designed and instructed unique undergraduate courses.
Completed.
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Activities and Societies: Golden Key International Honour Society
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Volunteer Coordinator
Iowa City Open Coffee
- 2 years 1 month
Economic Empowerment
• Hosted bi-weekly event for entrepreneurs, business leaders, creative minds, and others to help build Iowa City’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
• These meetings also function as lead-ins to the area’s 1 Million Cups – a program that allows local entrepreneurs to present their business plans and receive feedback
Publications
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The Iconic Obama: Essays on Media Representations of the Candidate and New President
McFarland
How has President Barack Obama been represented in popular culture? He is more than the United States’ 44th president, but he is also a lens through which we can examine politics, art, comics, and music in local, national, and international contexts. The all-new essays and interviews in this collection focus on the buildup to the 2008 election as well as Obama’s first year as president, a brief historical moment in which "Obama" was synonymous with possibility. The contributors represent a…
How has President Barack Obama been represented in popular culture? He is more than the United States’ 44th president, but he is also a lens through which we can examine politics, art, comics, and music in local, national, and international contexts. The all-new essays and interviews in this collection focus on the buildup to the 2008 election as well as Obama’s first year as president, a brief historical moment in which "Obama" was synonymous with possibility. The contributors represent a variety of scholarly standpoints, each adding a unique perspective on Obama’s relationship to popular culture.
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"A History of African American Religion in Comic Books" in Unionist Popular Culture and Rolls of Honour in the North of Ireland: During the First World War and Other Diverse Essays
Mellen Press
My contribution to this essay collection, "A History of African American Religion in Comic Books," is an overview of how African American Religion and Spirituality has appeared in US comic books. The goal of this piece is to show that while American comic books have been largely created and control by White and Jewish Americans, African American beliefs had significantly permeated US society as early as the 1930s.
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Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1, published in September 11 in Popular Culture - A Guide
Greenwood
An analysis of how the science fiction shows, "Battlestar Galactica" and "Stargate SG-1", address post-9/11 politics.
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Review, Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body by Kim Toffoletti
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
"The vast majority of books dealing with posthumanism and cyborgs tend to be works by science fiction fans using academic terminology in order to legitimate their intellectual interests. Far too often, a text that promises to look at the impact of posthumanism on modern society simply focuses on characters like Data, Seven of Nine, the Terminator, or any other science fiction character popular at the time. These works are typically underwhelming because they present analyses that are not only…
"The vast majority of books dealing with posthumanism and cyborgs tend to be works by science fiction fans using academic terminology in order to legitimate their intellectual interests. Far too often, a text that promises to look at the impact of posthumanism on modern society simply focuses on characters like Data, Seven of Nine, the Terminator, or any other science fiction character popular at the time. These works are typically underwhelming because they present analyses that are not only completely obvious, but localized to ideas of cybernetics, robotics, or genetic engineering. Moreover, many of these manuscripts use cultural theory in such superficial manners that it seems the author(s) has a list of requirements that they simply check off as opposed to genuinely placing the theories they cite in discussion with their ideas. It is for those reasons that Kim Toffoletti's Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body shines.'
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"Graphic Imagery: Jewish American Comic Book Creators’ Depictions of Class, Race, Patriotism and the Birth of the Good Captain"; published in "Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero"
McFarland
We do not have to become heroes overnight….Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down….The thing always to remember…you must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt (Goodwin p. 95)
Captain America is unquestionably the most patriotic comic book character. Captain America’s first appearance was so monumental, that he, as Roy Thomas writes, “spawn[ed] more…We do not have to become heroes overnight….Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down….The thing always to remember…you must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt (Goodwin p. 95)
Captain America is unquestionably the most patriotic comic book character. Captain America’s first appearance was so monumental, that he, as Roy Thomas writes, “spawn[ed] more imitators than any hero but Superman himself” (Thomas p. 5). Captain America - “A flag with rock hard abs” (The Colbert Report), as he was once described by Stephen Colbert – quickly became a top selling character and the meridian example of pro-war attitudes appearing in World War II era comic books. However, to fully understand Captain America’s ascension to the avatar of US patriotism during World War II, it is important to know World War II propaganda reflected more than pro-American sentiment. Comic books uniquely pushed for the US to enter the war because the Jewish Americans who created the American Comic Book industry had personal stakes in the success US victory in the war and understood that patriotism was synonymous with sacrifice.
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Review for "The Genesis of Mass Culture: Show Business Live In America, 1840 to 1940"
The Journal of Popular Culture
Courses
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Digital Rhetorics
008 313
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Media Communication Research Methods II - Quantitative Research
019 236
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Technology in American Culture
045 258
Projects
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“The Iconic Obama - The Making of a Book by a Graduate Student.”
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This presentation was part of the University of Iowa's Libraries’ Staff Development and Diversity Program; Diversity/Cultural Competence and University Scholarship Awareness.
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“Social Media: Videogames and Professional Development.” Guest Presentation for Kyle Moody’s course, “Social Media Today,” The University of Iowa’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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For this presentation, I discussed how the rise of social media has impacted videogame development and how companies engage consumers. I also provided guidelines for people to follow so that they can better build their own social media presence.
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World Canvass, “Comics, Creativity and Culture”
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A panel discussion on comic books as a medium and its place in the academy.
Homepage for event: http://international.uiowa.edu/accents/post/worldcanvass-kicks-third-season-comics-creativity-and-culture-sept-23
Honors & Awards
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Dean's Achievement Award
The University of Iowa - Center for Diversity & Enrichment Graduation Reception
This award was only given to thirteen graduate students out of a population of over ten-thousand.
Organizations
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Society for Professional Journalists
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