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Scholarly Books Available for Review

2025

  • Espejo, Erica Victoria. The Fangirl Diaries: Finding Community in Anime Fandom of the ’90s and ’00s. McFarland, 2025.
  • Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm. Broadening Horizon: Essays on Environment, Culture, Identity and Myth in the Game Franchise. McFarland, 2025.
  • Lent, John A. Comics Art in Korea. UP of Mississippi, 2025.
  • Santos, Jorge J. and Patrick S. Lawrence, editors. Out of the Gutters: Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics. U of Texas Press, 2025.
  • Soares, Michael Arthur. Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and …Abroad. Bloomsbury, 2025.
  • Tronsgard, Jordan, editor. Comics and Catharsis: Exploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing: Exploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing. UP of Mississippi, 2025.

2024

  • Archer, Dan. Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism. U of Toronto Press, 2024.
  • Barnholden, Neale. From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics. UP of Mississippi, 2024.
  • Beringer, Alex. Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip. Ohio State UP, 2024.
  • Brode, Douglas, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations. McFarland, 2024.
  • Casey, Jim, and Brandon Christopher, eds. Shakespeare and Comics: Negotiating Cultural Value. The Arden Shakespeare, 2024.
  • Coby, Jim, and Joanna Davis-McElligatt, editors. Boom! Splat! Comics and Violence. UP of Mississippi, 2024.
  • Donahue, James J. Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre. UP of Mississippi, 2024.
  • Flinn, Margaret C., editor. Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women. Ohio State UP, 2024.
  • Grafius, Brandon R. and John W. Morehead, editors. Horror Comics and Religion: Essays on Framing the Monstrous and the Divine. McFarland, 2024.
  • Hall, Richard. Captain America and the American Journey, 1940-2022. McFarland, 2024.
  • Harriet, E.H. Earle, editor. Aren’t You Bojack Horseman? Critical Essays on the Netflix Series. McFarland, 2024.
  • Heine, Erik. The Music of the How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy: A Guide to the Scores of John Powell. McFarland, 2024.
  • Hibbett, Mark. Data and Doctor Doom: An Empirical Approach to Transmedia Characters. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
  • Hobbs, Priscilla. Walt’s Utopia: Disneyland and American Mythmaking. 2nd ed., McFarland, 2024.
  • Jacobs, Dale. On Comics and Grief. Crossing Lines. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2024.
  • Kee, Chera. Corpse Crusaders: The Zombie in American Comics. U of Michigan P, 2024.
  • Langsdale, Sam. Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics. U of Texas P, 2024.
  • Najarian, Jonathan, editor. Comics and Modernism: History Form and Culture. U of Mississippi P, 2024.
  • Scorer, James. Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame. World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. U of Texas P, 2024.
  • Whitt, David and John Perlich, eds. The Disney+ Kingdom: Essays on Nostalgia, Representation and Branding. McFarland, 2024.
  • Worden, Daniel. Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics. Ohio State UP, 2024.

2023

  • Abate, Michelle Ann. Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. UP of Mississippi, 2023.
  • Ahmed, Maaheen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Comics. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge UP, 2023.
  • Baldanzi, Jessica. Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction: Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters. Routledge, 2023.
  • Beiguelman, Giselle, et al. Boundary Images. U of Minnesota P, 2023.
  • Colangelo, Clarissa. The Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985: An Introduction. Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels. Leuven UP, 2023.
  • Conner, Shawn. Superheroes Smash the Box Office: A Cinema History for the Serials to the 21st Century Blockbusters. McFarland, 2023.
  • Crey, Karmen. Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada. U of Minnesota P, 2023.
  • Crucifix, Benoît. Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel. Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
  • Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne. The Bible and Comics: Women, Power and Representation in Graphic Narratives. Bloomsbury, 2023.
  • Ervick, Kelcey, and Tom Hart, editors. Field Guide to Graphic Literature: Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary Collage. Rose Metal Press, 2023.
  • Favaro, Marco and Justin F. Martin, eds. Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkam’s Souls. Lexington Books, 2023.
  • Fraser, Benjamin. Ben Katchor. U of Mississippi P, 2023.
  • Galvan, Margaret. In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s. U of Minnesota P, 2023.
  • Givens, Joseph R., and Darius A. Spieth, editors. Robert Williams: Conversations. UP of Mississippi, 2023.
  • Grand, Alex. Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies. McFarland, 2023.
  • Groot, Kees de, editor. Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined. Bloomsbury, 2023.
  • Halsall, Alison. Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis. Studies in Comics and Cartoons. The Ohio State UP, 2023.
  • Heberer, Feng-Mei. Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism. U of Minnesota P, 2023.
  • McAlpine, Heather, W. Ron Sweeney, and Jess Wind, editors. The Archie/Sabrina Universe: Essays on the Comics and Their Adaptations. McFarland, 2023.
  • Mougin, Lou. Secondary Action Heroes of Golden Age Comics. McFarland, 2023.
  • Nagtegaal, Jennifer. Politically Animated: Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World. U of Toronto P, 2023.
  • Reingold, Matt. The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories. Academic Studies Press, 2023.
  • Santesso, Esra Mirze. Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing. Studies in Comics and Cartoons. Ohio State UP, 2023.
  • Smyth, Tim. Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels. Routledge, 2023.
  • Stagg, Allison M. Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828. Pennsylvania State UP, 2023.
  • Thomas, Paul A., editor. Analyzing Adventure Time: Critical Essays on Cartoon Network’s World of Ooo. McFarland, 2023.
  • Utell, Janine. Howard Cruse. U of Mississippi P, 2023.
  • Worcester, Kent. A Cultural History of the Punisher. Intellect, 2023.

2022

  • Abel, Jonathan E. The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji. U of Minnesota P, 2022.
  • Alaniz, José. Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia. Ohio State UP, 2022.
  • Brunet, Peyton, and Blair Davis. Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age. U of Texas P, 2022.
  • Carr, Bryan J. Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces. Ohio State UP, 2022.
  • Conway, Christopher and Antoinette Sol, editors. The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre. U of Nebraska P, 2022.
  • Hall, Richard A., et al. We Are Gotham: Finding American Society in the Television Series. McFarland, 2022.
  • Halsall, Alison, and Jonathan Warren, editors. The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions. UP of Mississippi, 2022.
  • Hardin, Whitney and Julia E. Kiernan, editors. Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
  • Hodapp, James. Graphic Novels and Comic as World Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
  • Horstkotte, Silke and Nancy Pedri. Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics. Ohio State UP, 2022.
  • La Cour, Erin, Simon Grenna, Rik Spanjers. Key Terms in Comics Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
  • Morton, Drew, editor. After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen. UP of Mississippi, 2022.
  • Parry, Kyle. A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes. U of Minnesota P, 2022.
  • Pedri, Nancy and Chuck Howitt. A Concise Dictionary of Comics. UP of Mississippi, 2022.
  • Pinho Barros, David. The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach. Leuven UP, 2022.
  • Rausch, Andrew J., and Mark Slade, editors. Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale. UP of Mississippi, 2022.
  • Scott, Darieck. Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics. NYU P, 2022.
  • Ty, Eleanor, editor. Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives. Ohio State UP, 2022.

Creative Imagetexts Available for Review

  • Aldama, Frederick Luis, and Chris Escobar. The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie. Mad Creek Books, 2020.
  • Allen, Joe. The Lonesome Era. Iron Circus Comics, 2019.
  • Ashwin, Kate et al., editors. The Night Marchers and Other Oceanian Stories. Iron Circus Comics, 2021.
  • Biel, Joe, editor. Your Neurodiverse Friend #5: Interactions with Police. Microcosm, 2022.
  • Braschi, Giannina, and Joakim Lindengren. United States of Banana. Mad Creek Books, 2021
  • Brenes, Edo. Memories From Limón. NoBrow Press, 2021.
  • Burton, Nancy. Hurricane Nancy. Alex Dueben, ed, Fantagraphics, 2024.
  • Di Lellio, Anna, and Dardan Luta. The Long Winter of 1945: Tivari. U of Toronto P, 2023.
  • Eisner, Will. A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue: A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Jared Gardner, W.W. Norton, 2023.
  • Ferguson, Miguel, and Fraser M. Ottanelli. ¡Brigadistas!: An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War. NYU P, 2022.
  • de Jongh, Aimée. Days of Sand. SelfMadeHero, 2022.
  • Mirza, Omar. The C-L Psychiatrist: Delusional Capacity: Autonomy vs. Beneficence. Roaring Sun Studios, 2021.
  • Stanford Graphic Novel Project. All City, Standford Graphic Novel Project, 2023.
  • Stanton, Joe. Leo and the Gorgon’s Curse. NoBrow Press, 2020.
  • Taki, Soma. Sleeping While Standing. Avery Hill Publishing, 2022.
  • Tresenella. TransLucid. Self-published webcomic, 2013-present.