Donald Ault in his office, with Donald Duck and William Blake in the background.

What follows is my contribution to a roundtable on Donald Ault’s legacy for the 2021 UF Comics Conference.

In 2005, I spent about a year on an aborted draft of my first dissertation chapter for Donald Ault. In a response to my musings about Gilles Deleuze and William Blake, Don off-handedly said “There is No William Blake” — giggling in a maniacal way as I struggled to comprehend what he could mean. Don often ma...