Comics & Graphic Novels

The 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...

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture-and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature-few scholarly...

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture-and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature-few scholarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258026Author Daniel SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company's other titles, Mad magazine. But...

When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase,...

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...

Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623160746Author Matt MacnabbFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Opus BooksPublisher Opus BooksWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 51mm

According to a popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Christopher Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insight into American cultural...

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...

Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978814608Author Sika A. Dagbovie-MullinsFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. Few resources currently exist showing the...

Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to Herge's Tintin (Belgium), Jose Escobar's Zipi and Zape (Spain), and...

From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a...

Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020Taking a multifaceted approach...

First appearing in 1963, The Uncanny X-Men had a rough start, lasting until 1970 when the comic book was canceled due to low sales. Following a relaunch in 1975, however, it found new popularity thanks to intricate scripting by Chris Claremont and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258842Author Esra Mirze SantessoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint 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 9780814258880Author Alison HalsallFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint 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 9781978821057Author Chesya BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural...

The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War Against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first century iteration, Aquaman becomes an...

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata War, a folk artist's rendition of a comic...

Overstreet's Comic Book Marketplace Yearbook 2015-2016 features a special look Dean Mullaney's Eclipse Comics, their impact on creator ownership, manga, and more. Also in the spotlight are Valiant Entertainment's big Hollywood plans, the 75th...

From the publishers of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide! Oversreet's Comic Book Marketplace Yearbook 2014-2015 features a special look at Batman's 75th Anniversary ranging from the first year he spent without Robin to Gotham By Gaslight, and from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995280Author Fredrik StrombergFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 690g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561633678Author Stephen WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561639441Author Stephen WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 343g

Surveying print and digital graphic life narratives about people who become ‘othered’ within Western contexts, this book investigates how comics and graphic novels witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and how they can...

Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga's culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462700062Author Fabrice LeroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 57g

This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study examines...

This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers...

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged "forced" diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most recent...

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a...

Answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case...

Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560979838Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 502g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606991466Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 497g