Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

Books in this series are edited, multi-author, scholarly volumes exploring a single major comics artist, creator, or graphic novelist from any period, genre, or country. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and multicultural approaches to understanding comics are particularly welcome, and the series highlights a wide range of disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical approaches to comics scholarship.

Series editor: David M. Ball, independent comics scholar and coauthor of The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking.

For more information or to submit a proposal, contact senior acquisitions editor Katie E. Keene.

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

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, ...

The Comics of R. Crumb

Edited by Daniel Worden
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

Contributions by José Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S. Polley, ...

The Comics of Alison Bechdel

Edited by Janine Utell
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S. Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta Howard, ...

The Artistry of Neil Gaiman

Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers & Kyle Eveleth
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

Contributions by Lanette Cadle, Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem, Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Andrew Eichel, Kyle Eveleth, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, Darren Harris-Fain, Krystal Howard, Christopher D. Kilgore, Kristine ...

The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell

Edited by Tahneer Oksman & Seamus O'Malley
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

Winner of the 2020 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize

Contributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O’Malley, ...

The Comics of Charles Schulz

Edited by Jared Gardner & Ian Gordon
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

With contributions by Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr. , Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders, Jeffrey ...

The Comics of Hergé

Edited by Joe Sutliff Sanders
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

As the creator of Tintin, Hergé (1907-1983) remains one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comics. When Hergé, born Georges Prosper Remi in Belgium, emerged from the controversy ...

The Comics of Joe Sacco

Edited by Daniel Worden
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

Named a Notable Scholarly Publication of 2015 by the Comics Studies Society

Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, ...