Comics Studies Society 2022

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Howard Cruse

By Janine Utell
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Biographix

Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher’s kid from Alabama who became “the godfather of queer comics,” Cruse (1944–2019) was a groundbreaking ...

Into the Jungle!

By Jimmy Kugler
Edited by Michael Kugler
Categories: Literature
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific ...

Asian Political Cartoons

By John A. Lent
Categories: Comics Studies

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, ...

Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media

Edited by John Stephens & Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Hélène Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten-Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann ...

Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale

Edited by Andrew J. Rausch & Mark Slade
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale ...

After Midnight

Edited by Drew Morton
Foreword by Henry Jenkins
Afterword by Suzanne Scott
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E. Felschow, Lindsay Hallam, Rusty Hatchell, Dru Jeffries, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff, Curtis Marez, James Denis McGlynn, ...

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader

Edited by Alison Halsall & Jonathan Warren
Categories: Comics Studies

Winner of the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond ...

Contagious Imagination

Edited by Jane Tolmie
Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama
Afterword by Glenn Willmott
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark O’Connor, Allan Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel Trousdale, ...

Jeff Lemire

Edited by Dale Jacobs
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario—his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC ...

Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes

By Josef Benson & Doug Singsen
Categories: Comics Studies

Shortlisted Finalist for the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic ...

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