Comics & Graphic Novels

We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first...

In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From her creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to her forthcoming appearance in Batman v Superman:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258965Author Alex BeringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536164Author Andrew BlaunerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606993583Author Steven BrowerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1313g

Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve...

Gerda stands at the window of her nursing home, looking up at the stars. A simple question has been haunting her for years, but until now she's managed to avoid it: has her life been a happy one? As Gerda negotiates the degradations of old age and the...

From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both...

A collection of Alan Moore's (Watchmen, From Hell) difficult-to-find comics short stories. From bold experiments, through early takes on his favorite subjects, to self-critiques of his older work, this wide-ranging collection is an essential look at...

Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Kohlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially...

""If you care about graphic novels, you need this book." - Bestselling author Neil Gaiman Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by five great 20thcentury woodcut artists from Europe and North America. The stories they tell reflect the...

A complete critical guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Children's and Young Adult Comics helps readers explore how comics have engaged with one of their most crucial audiences. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the...

A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author's subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. By the time Chris Claremont's run as author of Uncanny X-Men ended in 1991, he had changed comic books forever. During his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466350892Author Julian DariusFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals: *The history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940589220Author Lou TamboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy...

As The Walking Dead returns for its highly anticipated 7th season, fans of the show can celebrate all things The Walking Dead with this special collection of features, interviews and more pulled from the magazine, which has been keeping fans up to date...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995891Author Ken ParilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 829g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935259336Author Mike MadridFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Exterminating Angel PressPublisher Exterminating Angel PressWeight(grams)...

Tim Sale discusses his life and work in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume.This new, revised, and expanded edition of the original sold-out and out-of-print Tim Sale: Black and White previously published by Active Images features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960713Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 717g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981384Author Grant MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978836341Author Jeffrey A MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

The graphic novel is the most exciting literary format to emerge in the past thirty years. Among its more inspired uses has been the superlative adaptation of literary classics. Unlike the comic book abridgments aimed at young readers of an earlier...

These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786446278Author Robert Moses PeasleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 480g

Unlike other books in the market, this one concentrates on best practices that expert teachers have used to teach comics in various college settings. Organized in six sections, the book begins with basic advice for beginners and moves to explain more...

Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the endearing, witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy have caused newspaper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215142Author Margaret C FlinnFormat HardbackPage Count 279Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772127119Author Reginald WiebeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 550g

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It was not only aesthetically groundbreaking but also anticipated future developments in politics, literature, and intellectual property...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222182Author Douglas WolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm *...

Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore...

In Graphic Medicine, comics artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and comics explore the lived experience of illness and disability through original texts, images, and the dynamic interplay between the two. The essays and autobiographical...

Seeing Mad is an illustrated volume of scholarly essays about the popular and influential humor magazine Mad, with topics ranging across its 65-year history-up to last summer's downsizing announcement that Mad will publish less new material and will be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537082Author Frederick Luis AldamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in this volume show how illness narratives expressed in a variety of...

Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the "problem" of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often quite...

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and...