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ExpandingTheSpiderVerse

Expanding the Spider-Verse is a research project that grew out of the contributions and insights from interviews with over thirty Spidersona artists and Kathleen Wisneski, previously an Associate Editor at Marvel Comics for Spider-Verse (2019-2020), that has resulted in:

A Documentary

This fifty-five-minute, free-to-watch YouTube documentary, called "Expanding the Spider-Verse with Spidersonas," includes an overview of the Spidersona phenomeon and the creativity that is integrated into every single Spidersona design.

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An Academic Book Chapter

This book chapter, titled "Expanding the Spider-Verse: Infinite Possibility and Fan Plausibility," is forthcoming in Paul Booth's edited collection Entering the Multiverse.


Both resulting projects from this research were created as part of Lore Whittemore’s Media and Public Engagement Master’s Thesis.



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Watch the Documentary Learn About Entering the Multiverse (Coming Soon) About the Participating Artists & Interviewees