By Taylor D.N. Daigneault Gil, Joamette, ed. Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology. P & M Press, 2017. Crowdfunded through a Kickstarter campaign, Power & Magic:…
By Chase Machado Earle, Harriet. Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. Harriet Earle’s Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War is…
By Sean Rachel Mardell Kunka, Andrew J. Autobiographical Comics. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Comics with narratives that pull from familial and personal experience have appealed to a greater…
By Jacob Murel Chute, Hillary. Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere. Harper, 2017. Having previously read each of Chute’s prior publications, I pre-ordered Why Comics?: From Underground to…
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…