Blue
& Gray:
Embracing Comic Studies 3/2003
Newsarama:
The Mortal Coils of A. David Lewis 11/2004
Fanboy
Radio:
Episode #204 (thru BitPass) 1/2005
Fanboy
Radio:
Episode #219 (thru BitPass) 3/2005
The
Jewish Advocate:
Behind the Spandex - The Secrets of Superheroes 10/2005
Fanboy
Radio:
Episode #273 (thru BitPass) 11/2005
BU
Today:
Comic Conspiracy 2/12/2007
Boston
Globe -
Globe West: Picturing the World 3/4/2007
Entertainment Weekly - Review of Some New Kind of Slaughter 3/6/08
The Justice - Comic Book Genius from Brandeis 3/11/08
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Originally founded by A. David Lewis in 2000 as Serious About Comics, Caption Box has since grown also to encompass both academic and creative comic book works. Serving alternatively as either studio imprint or complete self-publishing house, Caption Box first printed through Red Eye Press of California to produce Mortal Coils in 2002, followed by its trade paperback collection Mortal Coils: Bodylines in 2004, the original graphic novel The Lone and Level Sands in 2005, and the God Complex novel in 2006. All along, though, Caption Box also has remained faithful to its academic side, with Lewis speaking at conferences nationwide, contributing to The International Journal of Comic Art (for which he is now an Editorial Board member), and founding the Ever-Ending Battle research project.
As a small press, Caption Box has had the excellent opportunity to feature the work of artists such as Evan Quiring, Jason Copland (Western Tales of Terror), Jason Narvaez, Dan Cooney (Valentine), James Woodward (Crazy Mary), Ed Dukeshire (Sword of Dracula), Jesus Barony (Grundlands), Joanne Mutch (Rummblestrips), Chris Moreno (Dracula Vs. King Arthur), Taki Soma, and mpMann (Arcana Jane). In its scholarly capacity, Lewis has partnered Caption Box with the International Comic Arts Association (ICAA), Newsarama.com's The Pulse, the National Association of Comic Art Educators (NACAE), BrokenFrontier.com, the Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), University of Florida's Comic Scholars List, the Gaiman Archive, and Dr. Gene Kannenberg's ComicsResearch.org.
Emerging from the field of comic book academia, A. David Lewis has presented scholarly papers on the comic book medium at conference across the country as well as writing for The International Journal of Comic Art, The Pulse, and Broken Frontier. Graduating with an English & Psychology B.A. in 1999, he joined Georgetown University in Washington, DC to pursue a Master's Degree in English Literature. In 2002, Lewis completed the M.A. and debuted his own title, the dark suspense anthology MORTAL COILS (http://captionbox.net/mortalcoils), which went on to be named a winner in the 2003 Cinescape Literary Genre Competition. The first collected Mortal Coils trade paperback BODYLINES was released in 2004 under his Caption Box (http://www.captionbox.net) imprint, with the follow-up edition for 2005's Free Comic Book Day. His graphic novel with mpMann and Jennifer Rodgers, THE LONE AND LEVEL SANDS, was released in hardcover format from Archaia Studios Press (http://www.aspcomics.com) in 2006. He has since returned to Boston with his fiancee (and, as of October 2007, his wife), first serving an an instructor at Northeastern University then joining Boston University's Division of Religious and Theological Studies for his PhD degree, all the while maintaining his devotion to popular culture and the arts. Since that time, he worked with Jason Copland on Empty Chamber and Danielle Corsetto on their portion of Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened. At Boston University, Lewis worked to organize the "Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels" conference in April 2008. He has again collaborated with mpMann on the new World Flood eco-epic Some New Kind of Slaughter called "a truly relevant bond between the Joseph Campbell stuff and the Inconvenient Truth/post-Katrina subtext. A-" by Entertainment Weekly.
