Chain World Freeform Comics Experiment and its customized book The Tome, and, in 2014, a founding member of Sacred and Sequential, an organization of religion & comics scholars. In 2015, Lewis's co-edited volume with Christopher Moreman, entitled Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age, was a winner of the Ray at Pat Browne Award for "Best Edited Collection", and his American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife was nominated for "Best Scholarly/Academic Work" in the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. In 2017, Lewis edited and contributed to Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation as co-editor with Martin Lund. In a 2018 interview with Nicholas Yanes of Sequart Organization, Lewis stated that his next work would focus on an academic manuscript of the depictions of cancer battles in comics, to tentatively be called: Cancer in Comic Books. Nonprofit work Lewis was the founder and president of Comics for Youth Refugees Incorporated Collective (CYRIC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Massachusetts dedicated to producing free comic books based in Syrian folklore for refugee children. By 2019, the organization had sent over 1000 copies of their Haawiyat anthologies overseas to camps and schools along the Turkish border in partnership with NuDay Syria (for which Lewis is also a board member). Comics bibliography "Alabaster Cities" in 9-11: Emergency Relief (Alternative Comics, 2001) Mortal Coils (Red Eye Press & Caption Box, 2002–2005) The Lone and Level Sands (with art by Marvin Perry Mann and Jennifer Rodgers, Caption Box, 2005; Archaia Studios Press, 2006) Empty Chamber (with art by Jason Copland, Silent Devil Entertainment, 2007) "Res Libero" in Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened (with art by Danielle Corsetto, Villard, 2007) Some New Kind of Slaughter, or Lost in the Flood (and How We Found Home Again): Diluvian Myths from Around the World (with writing and art by Marvin Perry Mann, Archaia Studios Press, 2008) Kismet, Man of Fate (with art by Noel Tuazon, colors by Rob Croonenborghs, and letters by Taylor Esposito, A Wave Blue World, 2017–present) Scholarly bibliography Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels as co-editor with Christine Hoff Kraemer (Continuum, 2010) Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age as co-editor with Christopher Moreman (Praeger, 2014) American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife (Palgrave, 2014) Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation as co-editor with Martin Lund (Mizan, 2017) References 1977 births Living people American