New Books in Comics and Graphic Novels
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Julian Schmid, "Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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James Scorer, "Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Amber A'Lee Frost et. al, "Year Zero #1: A Chapo Trap House Anthology" (Bad Egg, 2025)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Illustrating Punk
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Kay Sohini, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Joanna Rubin Dranger, "Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Kayla E.'s "Precious Rubbish" (Fantagraphics Books, 2025)
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Blair Farrell, "The Avengers in Video Games" (McFarland, 2021)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Ilan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Badiucao and Mellissa Chan, "You Must Take Part in Revolution" (Street Noise Books, 2024)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Ewa Stańczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Eric Drooker, "Naked City: A Graphic Novel" (Dark Horse Books, 2024)
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Jamie Michaels and Doug Fedrau, "Christie Pits" (Dirty Water Comics, 2019)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Paul Peart-Smith, "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation" (Beacon Press, 2024)
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Sultan vs Dracula
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Jan Baetens, "Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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May 26, 2024 |
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Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan, "1/6, The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol had Succeeded?" (Sun Print Solutions, 2023)
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May 26, 2024 |
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Alex Beringer, "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
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May 22, 2024 |
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Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Stephen R. O'Sullivan, "The Comic Book as Research Tool: Creative Visual Research for the Social Sciences" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Jinying Li, "Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Eve Benhamou, "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Comics Journalism in Taiwan: The Reporter File
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Karina Shor, "Silence, Full Stop" (Street Noise Books, 2023)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Paul Fisher Davies, "Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Alison Halsall, "Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Eszter Szép, "Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Coastlines, Climate, and Comics: In Conversation with Dr. V. Chitra
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Simon Grennan, "A Theory of Narrative Drawing" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Valentina Marcella, "Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey" (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Visibility
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature" (Rose Metal Press, 2023)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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5.3 “It’s on the Illabus”
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May 04, 2023 |
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David Lester and Marcus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2023)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Book Chat: Comics in Taiwan
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Kirsten W. Larson, "The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Jordan Gorfinkel, "The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther" (Koren, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler, "The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Romani Representation in Pop Culture
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Mark McKinney, "Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics" (Leuven UP, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Ryan North, "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Nancy Pedri, "A Concise Dictionary of Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell, "Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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David Lester, "Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Pornsak Pichetshote, "The Good Asian, Volume 1" (Image Comics, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Blake Scott Ball, "Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 25, 2021 |
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Karlos K. Hill, "The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Lindsay Thomas, "Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid, "Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Monstrous Women in Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Isabella Cosse, "Mafalda: A Social And Political History of a Global Comic" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and The Battles of Lev Gleason" (Chapterhouse Publishing, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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The Joker: How a “Typical Hoodlum” Character of the ‘40s Attained Cult Status Today
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Mark D. White, "Batman and Ethics" (Wiley Blackwell, 2019)
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May 24, 2019 |
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Jeffrey Kahan, “Shakespeare and Superheroes” (ARC Humanities Press, 2018)
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Sophia Rose Arjana, “Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture” (Lexington Books, 2017)
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May 14, 2018 |
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Kevin Patrick, “The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero” (U Iowa Press, 2017)
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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Bob Batchelor, “Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Steve Aldous, “The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series” (McFarland, 2015)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Christopher Pizzino, “Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature” (U of Texas Press, 2016)
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Mar 19, 2017 |
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Mariah Adin, “The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s” (Praeger, 2014)
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Hillary Chute, “Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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Liam Burke, “The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre” (UP of Mississippi, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2015 |
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MK Czerwiec, et al., “Graphic Medicine Manifesto” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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James Daily and Ryan Davidson, “The Law of Superheroes” (Gotham Books 2012)
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Nov 13, 2012 |