Comics & Graphic Novels

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

A reader's history exploring girls' comicsGirls' comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain and the most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now...

Boredom and melancholy in the experience of reading. Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772620184Author Helge DascherFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Conundrum PressPublisher Conundrum Press

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

Joe's back in 2007 with an all new art book which showcases his most recent sketches drawings, and paintings of his favorite subject: girls, girls, girls! This new book features, pin-ups and good girls which are demure and sultry. Artwork: shape,...

First 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...

Ernest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature--reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner--extending even into comic books. Appearing variously with Superman, Mickey Mouse, Captain Marvel, and Cerebus, he...

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 9781978825017Author Qiana WhittedFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

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...

A 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170370Author Bill SchellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 572g

Dash Shaw is one of the most restless cartoonists of recent decades, constantly evolving in how he approaches the comics page. In the years since his breakthrough graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button, he has continued to create acclaimed, idiosyncratic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978805071Author Paul WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925377064Author Sarah Pasfield NeofitouFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University...

Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuZrdago, both of which were released almost immediately...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462702127Author Martha KuhlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

Developing an understanding of eating disorders beyond the biological/medical framework has become a necessity in present times, especially when eating disorders are swiftly spreading deep roots across the world. In view of the multidimensional etiology...

What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York City? What if a superhero knew he was a fictional character? What if you could dispense your own justice with one hundred untraceable bullets? These are the questions asked and answered in the course of the...

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...

This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's groundbreaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and 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...

A 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...

Impossibly 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...

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,...

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978809215Author Jeffrey A. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 235g