Sydney Heifler is a comic book historian who specializes in romance comics. She is a graduate of the MSt in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford. She is a Distinguished University Fellow and a current Ph.D. student in the history department at the Ohio State University.
Her work has been published in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, PanelxPanel, and Comfort Food Comics. Her first article, “Romance Comics, Dangerous Girls, and the Importance of Fathers,” (published in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics) won the Comic Studies Society’s 2020 Article Prize. Her first comic, “Let Me Out of Here: A Story of Using Comics to Heal During the Pandemic,” is due to be published on The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship in Spring 2022.
Currently, she is serving as Interim Vice President for the Graduate Student Caucus of the Comic Studies Society and is a programming committee member for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.
Her work has been published in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, PanelxPanel, and Comfort Food Comics. Her first article, “Romance Comics, Dangerous Girls, and the Importance of Fathers,” (published in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics) won the Comic Studies Society’s 2020 Article Prize. Her first comic, “Let Me Out of Here: A Story of Using Comics to Heal During the Pandemic,” is due to be published on The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship in Spring 2022.
Currently, she is serving as Interim Vice President for the Graduate Student Caucus of the Comic Studies Society and is a programming committee member for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.