[Comicsstudiessociety] RIP M. Thomas Inge

[Orion Kidder]

That is very sad news. I used his ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN A COMIC STRIP in my dissertation. It was invaluable, and I emailed him to tell him so. He was very gracious with a grad student who, truth be told, didn’t have the hang of networking with more senior scholars. He did great work, and it’s a loss to us all that there won’t be any more of it. Rest in power. 

- Orion
(sent from my phone)

> On May 17, 2021, at 5:34 PM, Charles Hatfield via ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Tom (M. Thomas) Inge, pioneering scholar of comics, cartooning, humor, and popular culture generally. Tom edited more than one book series for the University Press of Mississippi and presided over some of the first panels about comics at both the Popular Culture Association and the Modern Language Association. Moreover, he enabled the careers of other scholars; he was a model of generosity, grace, and mentorship as well as scholarship. His interest and advocacy enabled my two first two books, Alternative Comics and Hand of Fire, and I think the same could be said for many other research writers who were assisted into the field by Tom. His work on diverse cartoonists and authors, from Poe, Twain, and Faulker to Schulz, Harrington, and Eisner, was both illuminating and profoundly encouraging.
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> Meeting Tom at the 1995 PCA conference in Philadelphia, and the community of comics scholars there that he represented (and that so clearly looked up to him with awe and gratitude), was a turning point in my life. I think it quite likely that I never would have been part of an endeavor to found a Comics Studies Society without his gracious, affirming example and concrete intercession in multiple instances. As a teacher, aspirational figure, connector of people, and above all as a reader and thinker, he inspired me. 
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> I am able to take so many things for granted today because of Tom's trailblazing work and unstinting generosity.
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> My deepest condolences to everyone whose lives Tom touched. That, I think, is a lot of people.
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> CH
> Charles Hatfield
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