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Forging the Past: Seth and the Art of Memory by Daniel Marrone 9781496814791
RRP: €35.64€34.37At 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 bygone... -
The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels by Dominick Grace 9781496815118
RRP: €129.71€108.58Contributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese, Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, Paddy Johnston, Ivan Kocmarek, Jessica Langston, Judith Leggatt, Daniel Marrone, Mark J. McLaughlin, Joan Ormrod, Laura A. Pearson, Annick Pellegrin, Mihaela... -
Peter Kuper: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781496818454
RRP: €35.64€29.73Peter 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, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, and the New York Times... -
Comics and Adaptation by Benoit Mitaine 9781496803375
RRP: €129.71€105.28Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoit Mitaine, David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Dick Tomasovic, and Shannon... -
The Forensic Comicologist: Insights from a Life in Comics by Jamie Newbold 9781476672670
RRP: €26.17€22.07I've been a comic book fan since childhood. The child became a man and the fan became a comic book retailer. I wanted more out of life and joined the San Diego Police Department in my mid-20s. I retired after a 20-year stint and returned to comic book... -
Alison Bechdel: Conversations by Rachel R. Martin 9781496819260
RRP: €129.71€105.28Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous... -
Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic by Joel E. Vessels 9781604734447
RRP: €129.71€105.76In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips---called bande dessinee or ""BD"" in French---have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among French-speaking... -
Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay by Katherine Roeder 9781617039607
RRP: €71.40€59.79Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation,... -
The Superhero Reader by Charles Hatfield 9781617038020
RRP: €129.71€108.58Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture... -
The British Comic Book Invasion: Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison and the Evolution of the American Style by Jochen Ecke 9781476674155
RRP: €34.50€28.62How can comics storytelling stay exciting and innovative? How can genres be kept alive? And what makes a successful comics creator? These are the questions writers and artists working in the highly competitive US comics mainstream have always had to ask... -
Comics and the U.S. South by Brannon Costello 9781617030185
RRP: €129.71€105.76Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies... -
The Comics of Herge: When the Lines Are Not So Clear by Joe Sutliff Sanders 9781496807267
RRP: €129.71€105.28As the creator of Tintin, Herge (1907-1983) remains one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comics. When Herge, born Georges Prosper Remi in Belgium, emerged from the controversy surrounding his actions after World War II, his... -
Comics Art in China by John A. Lent 9781496811745
RRP: €77.35€63.80In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing thehistory from the nineteenth century to the present as well as perspectives on both the industry and... -
Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City Institution by Sharon Packer 9781476670980
RRP: €42.83€36.13Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight... -
Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging by Robert G. Weiner 9780786443024
RRP: €34.50€29.10To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement. Now an established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic... -
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre by James J. Donahue 9781496850508
RRP: €29.69€24.99In recent years, studios like Marvel and DC have seen enormous success transforming comics into major motion pictures. At the same time, bookstores such as Barnes & Noble in the US and Indigo in Canada have made more room for comic books and graphic... -
Superheroes Beyond by Cormac McGarry 9781496850102
RRP: €35.64€29.73Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, Naja Later, Cormac McGarry, Angela Ndalianis,... -
Superheroes Beyond by Cormac McGarry 9781496850096
RRP: €129.71€107.97Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, Naja Later, Cormac McGarry, Angela Ndalianis,... -
BOOM! SPLAT!: Comics and Violence by Jim Coby 9781496850041
RRP: €35.64€29.73Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Alvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, Vincent Haddad, Kaleb Knoblauch, Christina M. Knopf,... -
BOOM! SPLAT!: Comics and Violence by Jim Coby 9781496850034
RRP: €116.62€97.29Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Alvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, Vincent Haddad, Kaleb Knoblauch, Christina M. Knopf,... -
Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture by Jonathan Najarian 9781496849588
RRP: €35.64€33.92Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden Since the early... -
Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture by Jonathan Najarian 9781496849571
RRP: €116.62€108.27Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden Since the early... -
Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman by Georgiana Banita 9781496837509
RRP: €116.62€94.81Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beinecke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent Worcester A carefully curated, wide-ranging edited... -
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics by Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo 9780816553310
€37.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553310Author Ricardo Quintana-VallejoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
I'm Just a Comic Book Boy: Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk by Christopher B. Field, 9780786496419
RRP: €34.50€28.62Comics and the punk movement are powerfully and inextricably linked. Each has a do-it-yourself ethos and a rebellious spirit to defy authority that complements the other. Though this link seems obvious, this collection of insightful and provocative works... -
The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times by Joseph J. Darowski 9780786471225
RRP: €17.84€14.93Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous run of published comic book adventures in the history of the industry. Seventy years after her debut Wonder Woman remains a popular... -
Peter Bagge: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781628462043
RRP: €129.71€105.28For fans of Peter Bagge (b. 1957) and his bracing satirical writing and drawing, this collection offers a perfect means to track how he describes his career choices, work habits, preoccupations, and comedic sensibility since the 1980s. Featuring a new... -
Stan Lee: Conversations by Jeff McLaughlin 9781578069859
RRP: €35.64€29.73Stan Lee (b. 1922), co-creator of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and The Uncanny X-Men, is one of the most successful writers and publishers of comics. During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote superhero adventures for Marvel... -
Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal by Jessica Baldanzi 9781496827029
RRP: €129.71€107.97Contributions by Jose 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 M. Peterson, Nicholaus Pumphrey, Hussein Rashid,... -
Michael Allred: Conversations by Christopher Irving 9781496803269
RRP: €129.71€105.76Michael Allred stands out for his blend of spiritual and philosophical approaches with an art style reminiscent of 1960s era superhero comics, which creates a mixture of both postmodernism and nostalgia. His childhood came during an era where pop art and... -
Pretty WITCHES Are Born In AUGUST by Birthday Geek 9781086514339
€7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781086514339Author Birthday GeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Storytelling in Kabuki: An Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics by Steen Ledet Christiansen 9781496226686
RRP: €30.93€26.23Steen Ledet Christiansen’s Storytelling in “Kabuki” explores the series created by David Mack—a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki and her past. The series ran from 1994 to 2004 in a variety of miniseries, one-shots, and... -
Elfquest: The Art of the Story by Wendy Pini 9781933865867
€50.52Elfquest: The Art of the Story handpicks a selection of Wendy and Richard Pini's favorite Elfquest tales, scanned directly from the original art. These self-contained pieces are some of the finest Elfquest stories ever told. Every unlettered art page is... -
Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes by Jeffrey A. Brown 9781978825277
RRP: €77.35€67.78Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key part of the ongoing drama. Such is the state of superhero comics and movies, a genre that has become one of... -
Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic by Shiamin Kwa 9781978826533
RRP: €77.35€67.78Analyzing 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... -
The Worlds Of Matt Busch by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. 9781932563009
RRP: €32.12€24.48Illustrator Matt Busch is world-renowned for his artwork for movies, television, comic book covers, and best-selling "how-to" books. Hermes Press' newest all color art book features Busch's sci-fi images, posters and advertising art from the entire... -
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by Vijay Mishra 9781839990700
RRP: €95.20€89.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839990700Author Vijay MishraFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics by Catriona MacLeod 9781789386813
RRP: €35.64€33.37This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905. Organised into three sections, the book looks at the representation of women as main characters created by men, as secondary characters... -
Graphic Novels as Philosophy by Jeff McLaughlin 9781496825629
RRP: €41.59€35.83Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel "Mandel" Cabrera Jr., David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Jeff McLaughlin, Alfonso Munoz-Corcuera, Corry Shores, and Jarkko TuusvuoriIn a follow-up to Comics as Philosophy, international... -
The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre by Christopher Conway 9781496218995
RRP: €105.91€92.722023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture One of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few American cultural exports have been as successful globally...