Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner: The Supervillain Reader

Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner discuss their book The Supervillain Reader with Chris Richardson. Peaslee is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media Industries. He holds a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and his publications have focused on media-related tourism and festivals, superheroes and contemporary popular culture, documentary and feature film, and international communication. He is the co-editor of four volumes on various dimensions of comics, film, and television, and his work has appeared in journals such as Adaptation, Transformative Works & Cultures, Visual Communication Quarterly, Mass Communication and Society, and the International Journal of Communication. Originally from Milford, NH, he now calls Lubbock, TX home, and lives happily with his wife Kate and their three superhero kids, Coen, Hazel, and Nora.

Robert G. “Rob” Weiner is Popular Culture Librarian and liaison to the College of Visual and Performing Arts. He also teaches for the Honors College. His research interests include sequential art, popular music, and the history of film. He has authored/edited/co-edited over 15 books including Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries, The Supervillain Reader (with Robert Moses Peaslee), Marvel Graphic Novels, In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (with Shelley Barba) Python Beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture (with Paul Reinsch and Lynn Whitfield), Perspectives on the Grateful Dead, Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom (with Carry Syma), Marvel Comics into Film (with Matt McEniry and Robert Moses Peaslee) and The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime (with Robert Moses Peaslee). Rob has also published articles and book chapters in The International Journal of Comic Art, ImageText, Journal of Pan African Studies, Texas Library Journal, Secret Origins of Comic Studies, The Routledge Companion to Comics, The Vietnam War in Popular Culture, What's Eating You: Food and Horror on the Screen, and Global Glam and Popular Music, Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation. Most recently he published several pieces in The American Superhero.