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CHRIS GAVALER is a professor of English at Washington and Lee University, comics editor of Shenandoah magazine, and series editor of Bloomsbury Comics Studies. He has published seven books of comics-related scholarship, including The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium forthcoming from Ohio State University Press in 2026. His other art and comics appear in The Rumpus, North American Review, and Ilanot Review. He blogs weekly at thepatronsaintofsuperheroes.wordpress.com.