Nicholas Sammond
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Sammond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sammond |
| SIGNATURE | SAMMOND N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Little Ladies Revolt
This essay follows an arc of feminist consciousness-raising, beginning with a newsletter put out by the “wives and girlfriends” of the underground comix artists of the early 1970s. Next it examines the feminist newspaper It Ain’t Me Babe (1970–71), especially a comic strip about consciousness-raising by Trina Robbins, Belinda Berkeley. That strip follows the life of a woman who earns a BA but works as a secretary to support her deadbeat boyfriend…
Letters, Queer and Women’s Comix, and Making Community
This article charts the role of underground women’s and queer comics in the formation of local communities and liberation movements. It moves beyond an analysis of the comics themselves, considering the role that correspondence—between fans and editors, between artists and editors, between editors and publishers, between fans and artists—plays in crafting community through critical discourse, practical discussion, and commerce. It explores the te…
Desegregating Comics
Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious witch doctors, or unintelligible minstrels. Yet the true portrait is more complex and reveals that even as caricatures predominated, some Golden Age comics creators offered more progressive and nuanced depictions of Black people. Desegregating Comics …
Abjection Incorporated
Abjection Incorporated
Meeting in the Archive
This paper examines the holdings of several archives that house women's and queer comix. It considers the logics of comix creation, distribution, and collection, and their relationship to the formation of communities. Situating its analysis in relation to the reparative turn in queer history and arguments about queer utopianism, the paper considers these comix, most of which were produced and purchased from the 1970s to the 1990s, against the oft…
Touched by Le Roy
Touched by Le Roy:Teens, Tourette’s, and YouTube in the Twilight of Neoliberalism Nicholas Sammond (bio) In early 2012, a story swept across broadcast and cable television, newspapers, the New Yorker, Slate, the Huffington Post, and the Atlantic: in October 2011, roughly fifteen teenage girls in the town of Le Roy, New York, had begun exhibiting mysterious Tourette’s syndrome–like symptoms, including spasms and verbal and nonverbal vocal outburst…
Reinventing Childhood after World War II
In his 1956 best seller, The Organization Man, William H. Whyte described the homelife of this new creature as a filiocracy: a child-ruled society. The domination that Whyte described then pales next to the social and economic power of middle-class American children today. That these children often stand in for all children points to the important work that Reinventing Childhood after World War II, a collection of seven essays on U.S. childhood (…
Commodities, Commodity Fetishism, and Commodification
Commodities are things that are useful, or that satisfy human needs. The requirements to which commodities are applied may be fundamental – such as food or shelter – or they may be more ephemeral, such as the desire to appear attractive or successful. The term “commodity” dates back to the late Middle Ages and once carried a variety of meanings, including advantage, convenience, ease, or, in Elizabethan slang, a woman or her genitals. As it is un…
Picture This
Nicholas Sammond is an assistant professor in cinema studies and English at the University of Toronto. His most recent book, Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the Modern American Child, 1930-1960 (2005), received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is also the editor of, and a contributor to, the anthology Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling (2…
Steel Chair to the Head
Babes in Tomorrowland
Manufacturing the American child
(1999). Manufacturing the American child: child‐rearing and the rise of Walt Disney. Continuum: Vol. 13, Cultural Studies: The Next Generation, pp. 29-55
Commodities, Commodity Fetishism, and Commodification
Commodities are things that are useful, or that satisfy human needs. The requirements to which commodities are applied may be fundamental – such as food or shelter – or they may be more ephemeral, such as the desire to appear attractive or successful. The term “commodity” dates back to the late Middle Ages and once carried a variety of meanings, including advantage, convenience, ease, or, in Elizabethan slang, a woman or her genitals. As it is un…
Manufacturing the American child
(1999). Manufacturing the American child: child‐rearing and the rise of Walt Disney. Continuum: Vol. 13, Cultural Studies: The Next Generation, pp. 29-55
Manufacturing the American child
(1999). Manufacturing the American child: child‐rearing and the rise of Walt Disney. Continuum: Vol. 13, Cultural Studies: The Next Generation, pp. 29-55
Steel Chair to the Head
Babes in Tomorrowland
Picture This
Nicholas Sammond is an assistant professor in cinema studies and English at the University of Toronto. His most recent book, Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the Modern American Child, 1930-1960 (2005), received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is also the editor of, and a contributor to, the anthology Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling (2…
Commodities, Commodity Fetishism, and Commodification
Commodities are things that are useful, or that satisfy human needs. The requirements to which commodities are applied may be fundamental – such as food or shelter – or they may be more ephemeral, such as the desire to appear attractive or successful. The term “commodity” dates back to the late Middle Ages and once carried a variety of meanings, including advantage, convenience, ease, or, in Elizabethan slang, a woman or her genitals. As it is un…
Reinventing Childhood after World War II
In his 1956 best seller, The Organization Man, William H. Whyte described the homelife of this new creature as a filiocracy: a child-ruled society. The domination that Whyte described then pales next to the social and economic power of middle-class American children today. That these children often stand in for all children points to the important work that Reinventing Childhood after World War II, a collection of seven essays on U.S. childhood (…
Touched by Le Roy
Touched by Le Roy:Teens, Tourette’s, and YouTube in the Twilight of Neoliberalism Nicholas Sammond (bio) In early 2012, a story swept across broadcast and cable television, newspapers, the New Yorker, Slate, the Huffington Post, and the Atlantic: in October 2011, roughly fifteen teenage girls in the town of Le Roy, New York, had begun exhibiting mysterious Tourette’s syndrome–like symptoms, including spasms and verbal and nonverbal vocal outburst…
Meeting in the Archive
This paper examines the holdings of several archives that house women's and queer comix. It considers the logics of comix creation, distribution, and collection, and their relationship to the formation of communities. Situating its analysis in relation to the reparative turn in queer history and arguments about queer utopianism, the paper considers these comix, most of which were produced and purchased from the 1970s to the 1990s, against the oft…
Abjection Incorporated
Abjection Incorporated
Desegregating Comics
Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious witch doctors, or unintelligible minstrels. Yet the true portrait is more complex and reveals that even as caricatures predominated, some Golden Age comics creators offered more progressive and nuanced depictions of Black people. Desegregating Comics …
Letters, Queer and Women’s Comix, and Making Community
This article charts the role of underground women’s and queer comics in the formation of local communities and liberation movements. It moves beyond an analysis of the comics themselves, considering the role that correspondence—between fans and editors, between artists and editors, between editors and publishers, between fans and artists—plays in crafting community through critical discourse, practical discussion, and commerce. It explores the te…
The Little Ladies Revolt
This essay follows an arc of feminist consciousness-raising, beginning with a newsletter put out by the “wives and girlfriends” of the underground comix artists of the early 1970s. Next it examines the feminist newspaper It Ain’t Me Babe (1970–71), especially a comic strip about consciousness-raising by Trina Robbins, Belinda Berkeley. That strip follows the life of a woman who earns a BA but works as a secretary to support her deadbeat boyfriend…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Comics (3 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)