Qiana Whitted
Qiana Whitted is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of the Eisner Award-winning book, EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest and editor of the collection, Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics. Along with published articles, book chapters, and online writings that explore race, genre, and history in comics, she has written the introductory essay for Marvel’s Penguin Classics volume of Black Panther comics. She has also served as editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society and chair of the International Comic Arts Forum.
Reading List
Tin Cans and Tech: Five Comics Explore AI
Wrestling with anxieties about the use of chatbots in the classroom, the dubious ethics of data scraping, and the relentless intrusion of AI “enhancements” also makes me curious about the insights that only art can generate. What emerged from those initial conversations are five comics that touch on these broad questions directly and indirectly, through a variety of perspectives and artistic styles.