By Ryan Bedsaul Fies, Brian. A Fire Story. Abrams ComicArts, 2019. “On Monday, my house disappeared,” so begins Brian Fies’s A Fire Story, a graphic…
By Chester Scoville Adolescence is both the most ephemeral of life stages and the most enduring—ephemeral because it is both brief and provisional, enduring because…
By Matthew Holder I think comics are at their best when they are provocative, and their outlaw nature is what I want to seek out…
By Michelle Ann Abate The importance of Richard Felton Outcault to the development of newspaper comics in the United States is well established. On February…
José Alaniz José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature (adjunct) at the University of Washington,…
By Erika Rothberg Review of Kirtley, Susan et al. With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. While…
By Sourav Chatterjee Roma Chatterji, Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India, Routledge, 2020. In her monograph, Roma Chatterji explores graphic stories that employ…
By Benjamin Fraser Abstract Produced over some twenty years and published as a single edition in 2019, the complete Clyde Fans saga is a rich…
By Kristy Beers Fägersten, Anna Nordenstam, and Margareta Wallin Wictorin, Introduction Swedish comics artist Liv Strömquist debuted in 2005 with Hundra procent fett (“One hundred…
By Alexandra Lampp Berglund An image of Wonder Woman evokes, just as her title alludes, wonder. She stands at six feet tall and wields a…