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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil by David William Foster
RRP: $37.72$34.08El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Hector... -
Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age by Dan Hassler-Forest 9781780991795
RRP: $25.71$22.35In the same way that Stallone and Schwarzenegger played film heroes who came to embody the values of Ronald Reagans aggressive conservative agenda in the 1980s, the 21st-century film narratives of Batman, Spider-Man and Superman reflect the policies of... -
100 Things Batman Fans Should Know & do Before They Die by Joseph McCabe
RRP: $23.93$18.82Most Batman fans have enjoyed the Dark Knight in comics or on the big screen and are eagerly anticipating the release of the new Justice League movie. But only real fans know the other characters who have donned the cowl in place of Bruce Wayne, or know... -
Chris Ware: Conversations by Jean Braithwaite 9781496809308
RRP: $42.80$34.75Virtuoso Chris Ware (b. 1967) has achieved some noteworthy firsts for comics. The Guardian First Book Award for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth was the first major UK literary prize awarded for a graphic novel. In 2002 Ware was the first... -
Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine by Sweetha Saji 9781032163505
RRP: $34.29$30.34This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a... -
Wonder Woman Unbound by Tim Hanley 9781613749098
RRP: $35.94$27.272015 Amelia Bloomer Project ListThis close look at Wonder Woman's history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman with a golden lasso and bullet-deflecting bracelets. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time,... -
Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis
RRP: $17.58$16.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940589008Author Warren EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy... -
War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film by Marc DiPaolo 9780786447183
RRP: $37.72$31.51Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance. This critical text... -
Hero-A-Go-Go: Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters, & Culture of the by Michael Eury
RRP: $56.59$47.48Welcome to the CAMP AGE, when spies liked their wars cold and their women warm, good guys beat bad guys with a pun and a punch, and Batman shook a mean cape. HERO-A-GO-GO celebrates the camp craze of the Swinging Sixties, when just about everyone-the... -
A History of the Doc Savage Adventures in Pulps, Paperbacks, Comics, Fanzines, Radio and Film by Robert Michael Cotter 9781476665986
RRP: $30.86$25.51Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. The adventure series is examined in relation to historical... -
Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics by Mike Madrid 9781935259237
$26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935259237Author Mike MadridFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Exterminating Angel PressPublisher Exterminating Angel PressWeight(grams) 440g -
Zorro's Shadow: How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero by Stephen J.C. Andes
RRP: $29.07$21.54"SADDLE UP! Andes takes us on an exhilarating, dust-kicking ride through the actual origins and history of the first hemispheric Latinx superhero: Zorro." -Frederick Luis Aldama, editor of Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Zorro's Shadow explores the masked... -
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
RRP: $44.58$37.81Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable... -
I Go Pogo by Walt Kelly 9780486838359
RRP: $21.42$15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486838359Author Walt KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm)... -
A Comics Studies Reader by Jeet Heer 9781604731095
RRP: $42.80$36.90A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the... -
Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics by Dr. Casey Brienza
$53.07Japanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have "invaded" and "conquered" the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture... -
Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set by Sherry Ginn 9780786498192
RRP: $25.71$22.64First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, was introduced to movie audiences in Iron Man 2 (2010). Her character has grown in popularity with subsequent Marvel films, and fans have been vocal about wanting to see... -
Comics As Art: We Told You So: An Oral History of Fantagraphics Books by Tom Spurgeon 9781606999332
RRP: $85.75$59.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999332Author Tom SpurgeonFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
The Comics Journal #303: The New Mainstream by Gary Groth
RRP: $25.71$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961710Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Maus Now: Selected Writing by Hillary Chute
RRP: $48.03$30.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315774Author Hillary ChuteFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm *... -
Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies by Alex Grand 9781476690391
RRP: $49.73$40.79This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how superheroes like Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their respective... -
Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe by Matt Yockey
RRP: $44.58$38.49The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past... -
Terra Australis by Laurent-Frederic Bollee 9781906838751
RRP: $29.14$22.73Just over 225 years ago, one of the most incredible odysseys in human history took place. 1,500 men and women were crammed aboard 11 ships and transported to the other side of the planet. They were criminals, outcasts, renegades: the scum of England... -
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870 by David Kunzle
RRP: $154.38$132.03Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870 enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humor is marvelously rich in pictorial narratives of all kinds. Author... -
Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods by Joel Ryce-Menuhin
RRP: $84.03$76.50Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then... -
Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form by Hillary L. Chute 9780674504516
RRP: $51.37$42.32In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster... -
The Ten-Cent Plague: Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, The by David Hajdu 9780312428235
$22.45In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, American popular culture was first created in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. But no sooner had comics emerged than they were beaten down by mass bonfires, congressional... -
Alan Moore: A Critical Guide by Professor Jackson Ayres 9781350060463
RRP: $41.15$35.92A complete guide to the comics work of the writer Alan Moore, this book helps readers explore one of the genre's most important, compelling and subversive writers. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: * Moore's... -
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies by Marc Singer
RRP: $51.44$47.22A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on... -
Comics and Graphic Novels by Julia Round
RRP: $39.43$34.49Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades... -
Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Critical Approach by Julia Round 9780786449804
RRP: $37.72$31.82This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in... -
Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters by Jan Baetens 9781978808478
RRP: $54.89$41.54A collaboration between Belgian artist Francois Schuiten and French writer Benoit Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world,... -
Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews by Sarah Lightman 9780786465538
RRP: $49.73$41.25The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed... -
The Comics Journal Library: The Writers by Tom Spurgeon 9781560976967
RRP: $34.22$22.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560976967Author Tom SpurgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 488g -
KARTIKEYA: The Destroyer's Son by Anuja Chandramouli 9788129149114
RRP: $20.57$20.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129149114Author Anuja ChandramouliFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel by Annalis Di Liddo 9781604732139
RRP: $37.65$31.94Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays... -
Manga: A Critical Guide by Dr Shige (CJ) Suzuki
RRP: $39.43$36.11A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of... -
Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture by Dan Gearino
RRP: $25.71$19.18The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers. Stores could then better customize their... -
Mixed-Race Superheroes by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
RRP: $61.75$53.16American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority,... -
Encyclopedia of Black Comics by Sheena C. Howard 9781682751015
RRP: $41.08$34.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682751015Author Sheena C. HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Fulcrum PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 548g