the right of the people peaceably to assemble: an image-text sequence by Chris Gavaler

Chris Gavaler is an associate professor of English at W&L University, where he serves as comics editor of Shenandoah. He has published two novels: School for Tricksters (SMU 2011) and Pretend I’m Not Here (HarperCollins 2002); and four books on comics: On the Origin of Superheroes (Iowa 2015), Superhero Comics (Bloomsbury 2017), Superhero Thought Experiments (with Nathaniel Goldberg, Iowa 2019), and Creating Comics (with Leigh Ann Beavers, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2020). His sequential art appears in Redivider, Split Lip, The Ilanot Review, Aquifer, Hair Trigger 2.0, Sonder Review, Two Cities Review, and Sequentials.