Comics Anthology Publications
Daphne’s Resolve
Retelling of the Daphne and Apollo Myth in Meandering Realms, 2022
Never too Elder to Love
Lovecraftian Romance with Willow Payne in Cthulhu is Still Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos. 2020.
Detour Part 2: The Quest Revised
Fantasy adventure with Tom O’Brien, in Oneshi Press Anthology 9. 2020.
Elizabeth Polly, Blue Light Lady
Ghost story for Local Haunts. 2019.
The Play’s the Thing
Shakespeare Tribute with Tom O’Brien in My Kingdom for a Panel. 2019
Detour Part 1: Off the Path
Fantasy adventure with Tom O’Brien, in Oneshi Press Anthology 8. 2019.
Date Night
Feminist monster comic with Ronnie Ritchie, Meaghan Carter, and Nikki Powers for Wayward Sisters. 2018.
Anthology awarded Best Graphic Novel of 2018 in the Canadian Independent Comic Book Wiki Awards, received the 2019 Gene Day Award for Anthology Collection, and was nominated for the 2019 Outstanding Anthology Ignatz Award.
Cindermecha
Re-imagined fairytale with Tom O’Brien & Ben Evans for Ever Afterward. 2018.
Xiphactinus
Non fiction comic for Awesome ‘Possum 3. 2017.
Home
Fairytale for Maple Key Comics 6. 2015.
Other Comics Publications
Summer Gig
Modern fairytale in comics, art, and prose anthology Bikes in Space #10, Forthcoming, 2023
Survived
Short piece for the post-apocalyptic comics, art, and prose anthology After the Fall. 2020.
Biking Saturn’s Rings
Short comic in literary magazine Wizards in Space. 2020.
Ghost Room
Experimental short story. Reprinted in literary magazine Pulp Literature, 2020.
Published by online literary magazine Burning House Press, 2018.
Received the 3rd place McKinney Writing Award for Graduate Mixed-Media, 2018.
Bike Shop
Experimental short story in comics collection Milk and Honey Volume 4. 2019.
Jupiter Made Easy
Faux nonfiction infographic for Vermont alt weekly newspaper Seven Days. 2019.
A Night in the Woods
Fairytale with Tom O’Brien in online fiction magazine Enchanted Conversations. 2018.
Lessons from a Coffee Shop
Autobiographical comic for comics zine Scenes from a Cafe Counter. 2016.
Rapunzel
Fairytale adaptation for Vermont alt weekly newspaper Seven Days. 2016.
Going in Blind
Slice-of-life collaboration with Tom O’Brien for the Dog City 3 mini comic collection. 2014.
The Waiting Game
Slice-of-life comic published in the comics zine Summer Quick and Dirty 2. 2013.
Comics Printed Through Kickstarter
Who is the Silhouette?
Quirky superhero anthology co-edited with Tom O’Brien, collecting 10 stories from 15 creators on 3 continents. I wrote the introduction (illustrated by Willow Payne), collaborated on one interior story (with Tom O’Brien), wrote the afterword, worked with each creative team as an editor, designed and laid out the book for print, coordinated with the printer, co-managed the Kickstarter campaign, and fulfilled backer rewards. 2018.
Wit’s End
YA fantasy graphic novel begun as my MFA thesis project. I was responsible for every part of the project: writing, illustrating, book design and layout, cover design, editing, coordination with printers, Kickstarter management, etc. 2016.
Academic Publications
Bannister, Allison. “Book Review: Run, Book One.” EJournal of Public Affairs, vol. 10, no. 3, 2021
Bannister, Allison. “A Fairytale Box ofThermochromic Fragments.” ImageTech:Comics and Materiality, special issue of ImageText, vol. 11, no. 3, 2020. imagetext.english.ufl.edu/ archives/v11_3/bannister/
Bannister, Allison. “Agency, Identity, Sex, Gender and Pokémon Go.” Well Played, vol. 6, no. 3, 2017, pp. 1-20. doi: 10.1184/R1/6687032