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Keywords for Comics Studies by Ramzi Fawaz
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.50Introduces 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... -
Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince: 1-3 Boxed Set by V E Schwab
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $57.44Delve into the thrilling, epic tale of the young and arrogant prince Maxim Maresh, long before he became the king of Red London and adoptive father to Kell, the lead protagonist of A Darker Shade of... -
A Once Crowded Sky: A Novel by Tom King 9781451652017
Booksplease Price: $29.40This critically acclaimed and inspired debut novel brings to life a universe of superheroes stripped of their powers and forced to confront danger in a world without heroes-save one.A tour de force... -
Doctor Who Event 2015: Four Doctors by Paul Cornell 9781782765967
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.57When an unseen enemy maneuvers the three Doctors into an impossible meeting, the future of the universe itself is put at stake. It will take all of the Doctor's innate cunning and adaptability to... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre by Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books by Arie Kaplan 9780827608436
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.93Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
Booksplease Price: $75.68"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks 9781804940938
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMANA wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action... -
Autobiographical Comics by Andrew J. Kunka 9781474227841
Booksplease Price: $64.87A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Autobiographical Comics helps readers explore the increasingly popular genre of graphic life writing. In an accessible and... -
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $62.43Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black... -
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley 9780295994956
Booksplease Price: $232.32Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black... -
Autobiographical Comics by Andrew J. Kunka 9781474227858
Booksplease Price: $211.95A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Autobiographical Comics helps readers explore the increasingly popular genre of graphic life writing. In an accessible and... -
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies by Marc Singer
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31A 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... -
Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature by Prof James Hodapp 9781501373404
Booksplease Price: $66.91Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant... -
The Death of Stalin by Fabien Nury
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $34.42Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death in the Soviet Union in 1953. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke -... -
May Contain Graphic Material: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film Prof. M. Keith Booker 9780275993863
Booksplease Price: $101.64Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of release... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $39.40The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening... -
Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet by Anne Elizabeth Moore
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.71EISNER AWARD WINNER | Best Academic/Scholarly Work About Comics | 2019 One of the most influential women in independent comics, Julie Doucet, receives a full-length critical overview from a noted... -
Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.2735 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN RECENT HISTORY *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*The year is 1964. Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfil his tragic destiny when he... -
The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard 9781945820687
Booksplease Price: $27.51Winner of the 2021 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Collection"Unsettling in the best way." - KIRKUS, Starred Review"Wonderfully terrifying." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review"Gets under your skin." -... -
The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories by Kate Ashwin 9781945820977
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.91"Enjoyable for reading aloud or sharing around a campfire." -- KIRKUS"Be careful of what you accept from spirits."Loup Garrou, trickster rabbits, and spirits with names that can't be spoken - the... -
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics by Hillary L. Chute 9780231150637
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.96Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives,... -
The Complete Full Tilt Boogie Alex De Campi 9781837866052
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $32.78INTERGALACTIC MAYHEM! Out in the deep reaches of the cosmos, teenager Tee - together with her grandmother and a cat (called cat!) - is a wannabe bounty hunter operating from her patched-together... -
Full Tilt Boogie by Alex De Campi
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.74Pedal to the metal!Tee, along with her grandmother and cat, is a wannabe bounty hunter, odd-jobbing across the galaxy in her ship the Full Tilt Boogie, constantly on the lookout for the bigger,... -
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk 9781788169295
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.74WINNER OF THE 2022 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK 'Magnificently marvellous' Junot Diaz 'An account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology... -
Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero by Anna Peppard
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.312021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new... -
Barcelona, City of Comics: Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain by Benjamin Fraser 9781438487496
Booksplease Price: $155.53Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.Barcelona, City of Comics introduces readers of English to a range of Spanish- and... -
Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure Jamie Brassett 9781032065267
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35A relevant book, given the presence of superheroes as an everyday, culturally dominant phenomenaThis book brings a popular genre, i.e., the superhero comic, in conversation with a rigorous... -
Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme by Sandra Eckard 9781475828078
Booksplease Price: $168.69Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find exciting new strategies to help students develop their literacy skills. Each... -
Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus by Ewa Stańczyk
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognised and lesser-known illustrators from Europe and... -
The Illuminati Ball by Cynthia Von Buhler
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $36.54Cynthia von Buhler, acclaimed author and visual artist of Minky Woodcock, brings her immersive theater production The Illuminati Ball to Graphic Novel form. Acclaimed author and visual artist Cynthia... -
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.53'A stunning, emotionally satisfying tale about the art of storytelling. I never wanted the lights to come up. I could not put it down' GRAHAM NORTON'It's its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast... -
Barcelona, City of Comics: Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain by Benjamin Fraser 9781438487489
Booksplease Price: $54.47Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.Barcelona, City of Comics introduces readers of English to a range of Spanish- and... -
Comics and Stuff by Henry Jenkins
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.02Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood... -
Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme by Sandra Eckard 9781475828085
Booksplease Price: $82.17Comic Connections: Building Character and Theme is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find exciting new strategies to help students develop their literacy skills. Each... -
Queer Forms by Ramzi Fawaz
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movements for women's and gay liberation-including... -
Humor in Modern American Poetry by Rachel Trousdale 9781501352607
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $72.01Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic... -
Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture by Dan Gearino 9780804011907
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $35.60The 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... -
Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture by Dan Gearino 9780804012133
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42The 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... -
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Ramzi Fawaz
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.312017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship...