About

Chris Gavaler is an associate professor at W&L University, comics editor of Shenandoah, and series editor of Bloomsbury Critical Guides in Comics Studies. He has published two novels: School for Tricksters (SMU 2011) and Pretend I’m Not Here (HarperCollins 2002); and six books of scholarship: On the Origin of Superheroes (Iowa 2015), Superhero Comics (Bloomsbury 2017), Superhero Thought Experiments (with Nathaniel Goldberg, Iowa 2019), Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith (with Nathaniel Goldberg, Routledge 2020), Creating Comics (with Leigh Ann Beavers, Bloomsbury 2021), The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images (Bloomsbury 2022), and Revising Reality (with Nathaniel Goldberg, Bloomsbury forthcoming 2023). His visual work appears in Ilanot Review, North American Review, Aquifer, and other journals.

Contact: chris@gavaler.com

Extrapolated Self-Portrait in Twelve Parts (March 2022)