Comics & Graphic Novels

Between the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wrappers, and bound books. From Gum Wrappers to Richie...

This compilation of essential information on 100 superheroes from comic book issues, various print and online references, and scholarly analyses provides readers all of the relevant material on superheroes in one place. The American Superhero:...

Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of the various knowledges that comics produce and the...

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The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978840690Author Michelle Ann AbateFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white...

Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative...

Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping...

Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding...

Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there were a great many in Britain and that they were often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593936068Author William SchoellFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940589084Author Fabio MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy...

For several generations, comics were regarded as a boy's club-created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and...

If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become a global icon in the twenty-first. In this pathbreaking study, Kent Worcester explores the sometimes ridiculous and often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935965633Author Jonathan Et BowdenFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Counter-Currents PublishingPublisher Counter-Currents PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940589145Author Rebecca JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy...

Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper, James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee Francis IV, Enrique Garcia, Javier Garcia Liendo,...

Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the...

!Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259375Author Michelle BumatayFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215821Author Michelle BumatayFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214183Author Sean GuynesFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new...

Comics and cartoons are ingrained in American life.One critic has called comic books ""crude, unimaginative, banal, vulgar, ultimately corrupting."" They have been regarded with considerable suspicion by parents, educators, psychiatrists, and moral...

"Secret Identity Crisis" follows the trajectory of the breakdown of the Cold War consensus after 1960 through the lens of superhero comic books. The superhero comic books developed by Marvel, because of their conscious setting in the contemporary world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258521Author Bryan J CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

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, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn Willmott Lynda...

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, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn WillmottLynda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257937Author Susan E KirtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258514Author Eleanor TyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214947Author Eleanor TyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813563855Author Bart BeatyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 468g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255636Author Sean GuynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578060767Author Kevin ColdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578073736Author Kevin ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214763Author Daniel SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255605Author Christina MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258385Author Ewa StanczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...