By Jason DeHart Guynes, Sean and Martin Lund. Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Ohio State Press, 2020. I first note my positionality as…
By Jackson Ayres Costello, Brannon and Brian Cremins, eds. The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2021. Scholars and…
By Rachel Hartnett Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero. Edited by Anna F. Peppard. University of Texas Press, 2020. “By wearing their underwear on the…
By Nicholas Orlando Andrew R. Johnston, Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. In his recent book, Pulses…
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…