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Twelve-Cent Archie by Bart Beaty 9780813590462
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £103.97For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their... -
Twelve-Cent Archie Bart Beaty 9780813563855
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £77.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813563855Author Bart BeatyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint -
Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty 9781442612044
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26On the surface, the relationship between comics and the 'high' arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art... -
Twelve-Cent Archie by Bart Beaty 9780813590455
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their... -
David Cronenberg's A History of Violence by Bart Beaty 9780802096227
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Arguably the most famous and critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, David Cronenberg is celebrated equally for his early genre films, like Scanners (1981) and The Fly (1986), and his dark artistic... -
Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture by Bart Beaty 9781578068197
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Too often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author... -
Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s by Bart Beaty 9780802094124
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40In the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since... -
The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books by Bart Beaty 9781137561961
Booksplease Price: £51.88Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the... -
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics by Susan E. Kirtley 9781496826053
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contributions 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,... -
Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Jean-Paul Gabilliet 9781604732672
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the... -
Comics Studies: A Guidebook by Charles Hatfield
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.06Nominee 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,... -
Comics Studies: A Guidebook by Charles Hatfield 9780813591421
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £81.70Nominee 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,... -
Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Jean-Paul Gabilliet 9781617038556
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the... -
History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels by Mark McKinney 9781617030475
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21With Essays by Baru, Bart Beaty, Cecile Vernier Danehy, Hugo Frey, Pascal Lefevre, Fabrice Leroy, Amanda Macdonald, Mark McKinney, Ann Miller, and Clare Tufts In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and... -
Comics Studies Here and Now by Frederick Luis Aldama 9780367590703
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward,... -
The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay by Thierry Smolderen 9781617031496
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.62In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the... -
The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics by Benjamin Woo 9781496834652
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz,... -
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics by Susan E. Kirtley 9781496826046
Booksplease Price: £99.43Contributions 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,... -
The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics by Benjamin Woo 9781496834645
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz,... -
Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema by Malek Khouri 9780802093882
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.51As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of... -
Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives by David Herman 9781350116955
Booksplease Price: £38.10Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal... -
How Canadians Communicate, Vol. 2: Media, Globalization and Identity by David Taras 9781552382240
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32The follow-up to How Canadians Communicate, this second volume embarks upon a new examination of Canada's current media health and turns its attention to the impact of globalization on Canadian... -
George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone by Henry Chamberlain 9781978834200
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.29George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean's Eleven. More legendary works followed, including... -
George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone by Henry Chamberlain 9781978834217
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.46George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean's Eleven. More legendary works followed, including... -
Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics by Paul Williams
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Winner of the Best Book Award in Comics History from the Grand Comics Database Honorable Mention, 2019-2020 Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize The term "graphic novel" was first... -
Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics by Paul Williams 9781978805064
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Winner of the Best Book Award in Comics History from the Grand Comics Database Honorable Mention, 2019-2020 Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize The term "graphic novel" was first... -
Barcelona, City of Comics: Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain by Benjamin Fraser 9781438487489
Booksplease Price: £26.07Explores 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... -
Barcelona, City of Comics: Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain by Benjamin Fraser 9781438487496
Booksplease Price: £74.00Explores 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... -
The French Comics Theory Reader by Ann Miller 9789058679888
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.32Key French-language theoretical texts on comics translated into English for the first time 'The French Comics Theory Reader' presents a collection of key theoretical texts on comics, spanning a...