Matthew Levay

@matthewlevay

Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt. matthewlevay.com

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Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· 12d

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Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· 13d

The daily book club/marketing scam emails mostly depress me, with their expert tailoring to creative/academic insecurities, but this line truly made me laugh.

“The modernist studies and crime fiction market is significant”

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· 18d

Breaking our long-running streak of watching the film-of-the-moment five years after everyone else, or never, @rlevay.bsky.social and I went to the movies.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Jun 28

Typical sign on the dog walking trail.

A sign reading “Caution! Please be aware of snakes in this area,” posted to a fence in front of a rocky expanse of sagebrush.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Jun 26

Author copies have arrived! Thanks to @univnebpress.bsky.social for producing such a beautiful volume. Available for preorder now, publishing on August 1.

A stack of paperback copies of my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Jun 26

Would absolutely read an “In Treatment”-style series starring Doc Samson.

Doc Samson sits in a chair while instructing the Hulk, who lies on a steel couch, to breathe.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Jun 17

Official announcement of a new project: I’ll be editing the Cambridge Companion to American Comics, with @universitypress.cambridge.org. We have a fantastic lineup of contributors, so stay tuned!

Contract with Cambridge University Press, for the Cambridge Companion to American Comics.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Jun 2

To fill a lazy summer afternoon, I highly recommend visiting your local campus museum (in my case, the Idaho Museum of Natural History).

Display of taxidermy (black bear, assorted birds) along with rows of fish and amphibians preserved in jars.

Various jars of aquatic life, all preserved and with labels from the Idaho State University Museum of Natural History.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· May 25

Just did a group bike packing trip that included beautiful scenery, lovely people, morning yoga, and good camp coffee, and I am officially not coming back to my daily life.

A mint green road bike set against a tree.

A view of trees, at evening, seen through a tent door.

A small mountain, covered in trees. In front of it is a field with people setting up yoga mats.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· May 16

Whenever you peer review for a book publisher, take the payment in books whenever you can.

A stack of paperback books: the six volumes of Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· May 8

Happy Friday, from Richie.

Small fawn dog wearing a leash and chest harness, looking up at the camera with a wild underbite.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Apr 28

For a semester-long, interdisciplinary faculty seminar, I had to make a zine illustrating some aspect of my current research. Naturally, I made a comic, despite my lack of talent in that medium. For posterity, here’s a page in progress.

Small zine page, featuring a comics panel in which a man (me) is reading a newspaper and listening to an old Bakelite radio. The caption reads “instead, you need a full range of creative expression to understand what culture looked like in an increasingly distant past.”

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Apr 27

Stop #2

A wooden sign reading “Hemingway Memorial,” standing in front of the Sawtooth Mountains and a blue sky

A small pillar topped by a bust of Ernest Hemingway, built above a pool of water

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Apr 26

Took a detour on the way home from Sun Valley to visit one of Idaho’s contributions to modernism (among other things).

A small white house with a green lawn, flanked by trees.

Three signs on the front of the white house in the first photo. The top one reads “Birthplace of Ezra Pound, the Poet, October 30, 1885. ‘I have beaten out my exile.”

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Apr 14

It’s been a hard couple of days, and just in case that’s true for you too, here’s a picture of my dog.

Richie, a golden little curly-haired dog in a purple harness, looking at the camera with love and confusion as he sits in the back seat of a car

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Mar 26

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: the only fashion inspiration you need comes from children’s books.

Poppleton the pig wearing a red hat, blue oxford, and green sweater. From Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague’s Poppleton in Spring.

Poppleton the pig wearing a blue necktie, white oxford, and brown sweater with a checkered pattern. He is showing off a yellow sunflower. From Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague’s Poppleton in Spring.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Mar 25

Marking the start of a new season with a new M’s hat. Let’s see what they do this year.

Me, a middle-aged white man with a mostly gray beard, wearing a teal Seattle Mariners cap

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Mar 16

Most recent three book purchases have all been doorstops.

Stacked paperback books: Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life; and Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Mar 12

Proofs! Coming in August from @univnebpress.bsky.social

Proof copy of the title page of my book, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Mar 7

We finally got snow, so a good day to take the plunge and try cross country skiing. Highly recommended.

Looking down at a pair of cross country skis and poles in the middle of a snowy set of tracks

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Mar 6

My kindergartener, learning the letter U, was asked to illustrate the concept of “under,” so naturally the first thing that came to her mind was crumbs under the washing machine.

Child’s drawing of a “wash musheen” with tiny dots, aggressively labeled “crums,” underneath it.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Mar 5

It hasn’t snowed here all winter, but here’s the view at my office this morning.

Orange brick building flanked by evergreen trees, all covered by snow flurries.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Feb 28

Would watch

Still from the Twin Peaks opening sequence, with “FRASIER” presented as the title.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Feb 21

Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. I took this photo for fashion inspiration, but honestly, this wouldn’t be bad at all.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Feb 21

The moral of this story, like every story, is always to let your spouse and children pressure you into doing something. You will have fun.

A snowy ski hill with the sun just beginning to rise about the mountain. Pebble Creek Ski Area, in Inkom, Idaho.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Feb 18

This tool is pretty fun if you’re like me and look forward to new soccer kit season every year. Plus, it has made my design preferences extremely clear to me. I’ll admit that I may be overly pro-RSL.

My ranking of the new MLS kits, from best (Seattle and RSL) to worst (Nashville and Colorado).

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Jan 29

Yourselves, but cartoon

Roger from 101 Dalmatians: a man in a sweater vest smoking a pipe, writing something down in evident frustration.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Jan 12

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that’s all I need to know about you.” -Brad Meltzer Honestly, anything with this logo on the cover.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Dec 2

I’ve been told that people are (understandably) more interested in seeing the dog.

Behold, a small brown poodle/schnauzer mix, lying in the sun in front of an open door.

Matthew Levay@matthewlevay· Dec 2

Walking the dog as the first snowfall of the season finally arrives, listening to the Blue Note Monthly playlist, is my recommendation for how to start your day.