With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy

Edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Bart Beaty, Jenny Blenk, Ben Bolling, Peter E. Carlson, Johnathan Flowers, Antero Garcia, Dale Jacobs, Ebony Flowers Kalir, James Kelley, Susan E. Kirtley, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, John ...

Ms. Marvel's America

Edited by Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin ...

How the Other Half Laughs

By Jean Lee Cole
Categories: History

Honorable Mention Recipient for the Charles Hatfield Book Prize

Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895–1920 examines an era ...

Graphic Novels as Philosophy

Edited by Jeff McLaughlin
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel “Mandel” Cabrera Jr. , David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Jeff McLaughlin, Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera, Corry Shores, and Jarkko Tuusvuori ...

The Comics of Alison Bechdel

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

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 Supervillain Reader

Edited by Robert Moses Peaslee & Robert G. Weiner
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Jerold J. Abrams, José Alaniz, John Carey, Maurice Charney, Peter Coogan, Joe Cruz, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Stefan Danter, Adam Davidson-Harden, Randy Duncan, Richard Hall, Richard ...

Monstrous Imaginaries

By Maaheen Ahmed
Categories: Comics Studies

Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries ...

Gothic for Girls

By Julia Round
Foreword by Mel Gibson
Categories: Popular Culture

Winner of the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on Comics

Today fans still remember and love the British girls’ comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history ...

Jeff Smith

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL, Paleolithic-set fantasy Tüki: Save the Humans, arthouse-styled superheroic miniseries Shazam!, and his latest ...

Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War

By Harriet E. H. Earle
Categories: Comics Studies

Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are writing them in ways that are both different from and ...