John A. Walsh
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John A. Walsh
John A. Walsh is the Director of the HathiTrust Research Center and Associate Professor of Information and Library Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. His research applies computational methods to the study of literary and historical documents. Walsh is an editor of digital scholarly editions, including: the Petrarchive , the Algernon Charles Swinburne Project , and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton . He developed Comic Book Markup Language (C
Studies of participatory culture in comics frequently focus on the superhero genre and the participatory fandom communities and networks engaged with the superhero genre. This study focuses instead on participatory culture in the fashion subgenre of teen humor comics published from the 1940s through the early 1970s and again in the 1980s. I survey the many types of reader-contributed content in Archie Comics’ Katy Keene comics and Marvel Comic’s teen humor fashion comics such as Patsy Walker and Millie the
John A. Walsh