Superheroes Beyond

Edited by Cormac McGarry, Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, ...

BOOM! SPLAT!

Edited by Jim Coby & Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Álvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, ...

Comics and Modernism

Edited by Jonathan Najarian
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, ...

Ben Katchor

By Benjamin Fraser
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Biographix

The recipient of a 2000 MacArthur fellowship, Ben Katchor (b. 1951) is a beloved comics artist with a career spanning four decades. Published in indie weeklies across the United States, his comics are ...

Robert Williams

Edited by Joseph R. Givens & Darius A. Spieth
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in Robert Williams: Conversations attest to his ...

Jack Kent

By Paul V. Allen
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Jack Kent (1920–1985) had two distinct and successful careers: newspaper cartoonist and author of children’s books. For each of these he drew upon different aspects of his personality and life experiences. ...

Artful Breakdowns

Edited by Georgiana Banita & Lee Konstantinou
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent ...

Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos

By Michelle Ann Abate
Categories: Comics Studies

Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions ...

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 ...