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Will Grady
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PhD Dundee Uni | Comics & the American West 🏜 | Associate Editor Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics | Collections Librarian 📚 | Author of Redrawing the Western (UTP, 2024)
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Will Grady @williamgrady.bsky.social · Dec 1
I’m pleased to announce the release of my new book, Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West, published by @utexaspress.bsky.social

More details can be found here: utpress.utexas.edu/978147732998...
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Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/

The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.

Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/

The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world.

Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/

Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
October 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/

Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
October 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Redrawing the Western has won the Midwest Popular Culture Association's "Best Single Author Book" award this year 🤠

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October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Fascinating book and a very fun conversation on my monthly Writing Westward Podcast. Buy the book after you listen, subscribe, review, and share!
May 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I really enjoyed talking to Brenden for the Writing Westward Podcast today 🤠

You can check out the recording along with other episodes below…
May 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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When we think about the genre of westerns, many of us think about movies or TV shows or even advertisements. But, this author wrote a book about a different form of media: the Western comic book.
A train ride with bandits in Arizona inspired this author to write a book about Western comics
When we think about the genre of westerns, many of us think about movies or TV shows or even advertisements. But, this author wrote a book about a different form of media: the Western comic book.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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My book Redrawing the Western has been longlisted for the Reading the West award in non-fiction — yeehaw 🤠🌵
utexaspress.bsky.social University of Texas Press @utexaspress.bsky.social · Feb 17
Congrats to not one, but two of our recent titles for their recognition by Reading the West! Both LOOSE OF EARTH and REDRAWING THE WESTERN were longlisted for prizes in memoir and nonfiction, respectively.

It's an honor to see these books alongside so many great picks 🧡 #ReadUP
February 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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New book review:
Sığın on Grady, William: _Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West_. World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. University of Texas Press, 2024. Published by Jhistory.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20056399
Grady, William. Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West. : World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. University of Texas Press, 2024. Illustrations. 313 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781477329986.$50.00 (e-book), ISBN 9781477330005. Reviewed by Aykut Sığın (Aksaray University) Published on Jhistory (January, 2025) Commissioned by Zef Segal (Media Studies School, College of Management Academic Studies)
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January 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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(Re)Draw Pardner – book review
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(Re)Draw Pardner – book review
Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West by William Grady (2024) Nearly 50 years after Maurice Horn’s Comics of the American West we get another book charting “the Weste...
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December 27, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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My all-time favorite holiday-themed comic book cover.
The Lone Ranger #79 (1955). The cover by Don Spaulding shows the Ranger holding the reins and riding a wagon full of presents and a Christmas tree.
December 1, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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I’m pleased to announce the release of my new book, Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West, published by @utexaspress.bsky.social

More details can be found here: utpress.utexas.edu/978147732998...
December 1, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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University of Texas Press has just released Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West by independent scholar and librarian William Grady, a history of American Western genre comics
New book, “Redrawing the Western” explores history of American Western genre comics
A new history of American Western genre comics, available now
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November 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM