By Molly J. Scanlon Parker Royal, Derek, editor. Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Essays on Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels. Purdue University Press, 2016. Derek Parker Royal’s edited collection Visualizing Jewish…
By Zack Shaw LaMarre, Thomas. The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Television’s evolution from a few…
By Ruth Ellen St. Onge Kashtan, Aaron. Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future. Ohio State University Press, 2018. The accessible and…
By Irene Velentzas Webber, Georgia. DUMB: Living Without a Voice. Fantagraphics Books, 2018. Georgia Webber admits that despite the common branding of her book as a memoir,…
Vincent M. Basso Vincent M. Basso received his Ph.D. in American Literary Studies from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Basso works in the American…
By Anastasia Ulanowicz On 13 April, 2019, the field of comics studies — and indeed, the humanities more generally — lost Donald Ault, a dynamic…
By Laura Schlichting and Johannes C. P. Schmid While comics have traditionally been associated with fictional, especially funny and/or fantastic stories, they have in recent decades…
By Dirk Vanderbeke Abstract Investigations into comics and graphic novels usually start with a quick survey of their history since the first humans drew pictures…
By Nina Mickwitz 1. Introduction Comics claim their stories are based on actuality rather than imagination and negotiate particular demands. They must inform but also engage…
By Dieter Declercq This article investigates the comics of American graphic artist Matt Bors, which fall into two main genres: satirical cartoons and graphic (or comics)…