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Riddle Me This, Batman!: Essays on the Universe of the Dark Knight Kevin K. Durand 9780786446292
RRP: $42.88$36.72From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic... -
Enter the Superheroes: American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature by Alex S. Romagnoli 9780810891715
RRP: $146.25$128.51Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape. Though initially created for younger audiences, superhero characters have evolved over the years,... -
Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels by Martha J. Cutter 9780820352008
$71.55Redrawing 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... -
The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade by Brannon Costello 9780807171332
RRP: $150.15$98.16Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators such as Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and... -
The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade by Brannon Costello 9780807174777
$68.27Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators such as Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and... -
The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets by Kevin Haworth 9781496821829
RRP: $68.15$64.16Best known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often defined only by news headlines. Her strong female... -
The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum by Daniel Worden 9781496833761
RRP: $68.15$65.25Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S. Polley, Paul Sheehan, Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr., and... -
Reframing Disability in Manga by Professor Japanese Studies Yoshiko Okuyama 9780824889876
$66.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824889876Author Professor Japanese Studies Yoshiko OkuyamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii... -
Graphic Novels as Philosophy by Jeff McLaughlin 9781496813275
RRP: $212.55$203.83Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel "Mandel" Cabrera Jr., David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Alfonso Munoz-Corcuera, Corry Shores, and Jarkko S. TuusvuoriIn a follow-up to Comics as Philosophy, international contributors... -
The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions by Alison Halsall 9781496841346
RRP: $212.55$172.52Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne Hochreiter, Sheena C... -
Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel John Darowski 9781476677255
RRP: $42.88$36.17Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television,... -
The Ages of The Flash: Essays on the Fastest Man Alive by Joseph J. Darowski 9781476674445
RRP: $29.23$24.47While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity makes his character easily comprehendible for all audiences, whether they are avid comic fans or newcomers to the genre, and in turn he... -
Peter Kuper: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781496808370
RRP: $212.55$203.83Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America's leading cartoonists, has created work recognized around the world. His art has graced the pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including Time, Newsweek, the New Yorker, Harper's, Mother Jones, the... -
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics by Susan E. Kirtley 9781496826046
RRP: $212.55$196.85Contributions 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 Kohlert, John A. Lent, Leah Misemer, Johnny Parker II, Nick... -
Perspectives on Digital Comics: Theoretical, Critical and Pedagogical Essays Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff 9781476671888
RRP: $56.53$46.90This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics. Contributors discuss comics made specifically for web consumption, and also digital reproductions of print-comics. Written for those who may not be... -
Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms, Series and Genres Jake Jakaitis 9780786466634
RRP: $56.53$48.48Although the suggestion that graphic narrative represents an important literary form still causes debate in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts. This collection considers various literary approaches to... -
Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives Francesco-Alessio Ursini 9781476668017
RRP: $56.53$46.90Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the... -
Ed Brubaker: Conversations by Terrence R. Wandtke 9781496805508
RRP: $212.55$196.85Ed Brubaker (b. 1966) has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Most famous as the man who killed Captain America in 2007, Brubaker's work on company-owned properties such as Batman and Captain America and... -
Dave Sim: Conversations by Eric Hoffman 9781617037818
RRP: $212.55$203.83In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004. Over the run of the comic, Sim used it as a springboard... -
The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life by Jared Gardner 9781496812896
RRP: $212.55$203.83The Comics of Charles Schulz collects new essays on the work of the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation... -
Jim Shooter: Conversations by Jason Sacks 9781496811790
RRP: $212.55$196.85As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b. 1952) remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium. Starting in 1966 at the age of fourteen, Shooter, as the young protege of verbally abusive DC editor... -
Asian Political Cartoons by John A. Lent 9781496842527
RRP: $191.10$175.25In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia,... -
Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s by Simone Castaldi 9781604737493
RRP: $212.55$196.85Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly... -
Steve Gerber: Conversations by Dominick Grace 9781496823045
RRP: $212.55$196.85Steve Gerber (1947-2008) is among the most significant comics writers of the modern era. Best known for his magnum opus Howard the Duck, he also wrote influential series such as Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, The Phantom Zone, and Hard Time, expressing a... -
The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II by Trischa Goodnow 9781496810304
RRP: $212.55$197.63The Allied victory in World War II relied on far more than courageous soldiers. Americans on the home front constantly supported the war effort in the form of factory work, war bond purchases, salvage drives, and morale-rallying efforts. Motivating these... -
Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art by Jane Tolmie 9781617039058
RRP: $212.55$197.63Autobiography 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... -
Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel: Life and the Environment After Societal Collapse Clint Jones 9781476668567
RRP: $56.53$47.21As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaster. Graphic novels have reliably produced dramatizations of such disasters. Many use themes of dystopian hopefulness, or the enjoyment readers experience... -
Forging the Past: Seth and the Art of Memory by Daniel Marrone 9781496807311
RRP: $117.00$109.61At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists - and perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. Seth's distinctive drawing style strikingly recalls a... -
Jeff Smith: Conversations by Frederick Luis Aldama 9781496824790
RRP: $212.55$196.85First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL, Paleolithic-Set fantasy Tuki: Save the Humans, arthouse-styled superheroic miniSeries Shazam!, and his latest children's book Smiley's Dream Book, Jeff Smith (b... -
Soul of the Dark Knight: Batman as Mythic Figure in Comics and Film by Alex M. Wainer 9780786471287
RRP: $42.88$35.04This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character's longevity is largely due to the medium's unique formal qualities. It argues that Batman's core appeal is his mythic nature which allows him... -
Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World by Dorian Alexander 9781496837219
RRP: $212.55$190.38In Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World, contributors seek to examine the many ways in which history worldwide has been explored and (re)represented through comics and how history is a complex construction of... -
Larry Hama: Conversations by Christopher Irving 9781496822734
$59.22Larry Hama (b. 1949) is the writer and cartoonist who helped develop the 1980s G.I. Joe toyline and created a new generation of comic book fans from the tie-in comic book. Through many interviews with Hama, this volume reveals that G.I. Joe is far from... -
Judge, Jury and Executioner: Essays on The Punisher in Print and on Screen Alicia M. Goodman, 9781476682501
RRP: $56.53$47.68Since the Punisher's first appearance in the pages of Spider-Man #129, the character has become one of the most popular and controversial figures in Marvel's vast universe. The Punisher represents one of the most recognizable types of anti-heroes. His... -
The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets by Kevin Haworth 9781496821836
RRP: $212.55$196.85Best known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often defined only by news headlines. Her strong female... -
Monstrous Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics by Maaheen Ahmed 9781496825261
RRP: $212.55$196.85Monsters 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 persist in today's popular culture. Comics monsters,... -
Politics in the Gutters: American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media by Christina M. Knopf 9781496834225
RRP: $212.55$188.99From the moment Captain America punched Hitler in the jaw, comic books have always been political, and whether it is Marvel's chairman Ike Perlmutter making a campaign contribution to Donald Trump in 2016 or Marvel's character Howard the Duck running for... -
Wonder Women and Bad Girls: Superheroine and Supervillainess Archetypes in Popular Media by Valerie Estelle Frankel 9781476684093
RRP: $56.53$46.90Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in... -
Monstrous Women in Comics by Samantha Langsdale 9781496827623
RRP: $212.55$196.85Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha Langsdale, Jeannie Ludlow, Marcela Murillo, Sho Ogawa,... -
The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum by Daniel Worden 9781496833754
RRP: $212.55$199.82Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S. Polley, Paul Sheehan, Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr., and... -
The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books Terrence R. Wandtke 9780786464913
RRP: $42.88$36.17For decades, scholars have made the connection between the design of the superhero story and the mythology of the ancient folktale. Moving beyond simple comparisons and common explanations, this volume details how the workings of the superhero comics...