Mysterious Travelers

By Zack Kruse
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Great Comics Artists Series
Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

Steve Ditko (1927–2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider-Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Ditko made an indelible mark on American ...

Medievalist Comics and the American Century

By Chris Bishop
Categories: Comics Studies

The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, ...

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

By Anastasia Salter & Mel Stanfill
Categories: Media Studies

Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making—the “fanboy auteur. ” Figures like ...

Critical Directions in Comics Studies

Edited by Thomas Giddens
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, ...

John Jennings

Edited by Donna-lyn Washington
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

John Jennings (b. 1970) is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award–winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred ...

Toxic Masculinity

Edited by Esther De Dauw & Daniel J. Connell
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Daniel J. Connell, Esther De Dauw, Craig Haslop, Drew Murphy, Richard Reynolds, Janne Salminen, Karen Sugrue, and James C. Taylor

The superhero permeates popular culture from comic books ...

Comic Art in Museums

Edited by Kim A. Munson
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M. C. Gaines, Paul Gravett, Diana Green, Karen Green, Doug Harvey, ...

Graphic Indigeneity

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
Categories: Comics Studies

Honorable Mention Recipient for the Comics Studies Society Prize for Edited Book Collection

Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip ...

Monstrous Women in Comics

Edited by Samantha Langsdale & Elizabeth Rae Coody
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha Langsdale, ...

Comics and Adaptation

Edited by Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot
Translated by Aarnoud Rommens
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Cecilia Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, ...