By Michelle Ann Abate The closing decades of the twentieth century were a golden era for comics in the United States in many ways. In…
By Irenae A. Aigbedion In the ever-expanding visual archive of slavery, comics present a new perspective from which readers can participate in the unearthing and…
By Willi Barthold Every reader who opens a comic or manga will inevitably glimpse at “a space that has been divided up, compartmentalized, a collection…
By Chamara Moore “Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.” In this quote…
By Matt Reingold Jana Krige and Marcelyn Oostendorp write: “One of the most important features of advice columns is that the exchange is made public…
By Juha Virtanen While the existing scholarship of Batman has not exhausted the debates about the character, it has nevertheless produced some overlapping analyses about his…
By Eric Berlatsky Singer, Marc. Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies. U of Texas P, 2018. In the interest of full disclosure, I…
By Jesse Matlock Peretti, Daniel. Superman in Myth and Folklore. UP of Mississippi, 2017. In his book Superman in Myth and Folklore, author Daniel Peretti examines Superman’s…
By Cara Wieland Wandtke, Terrence R. The Comics Scare Returns: The Contemporary Resurgence of Horror Comics. RIT Press, 2018. As a disabled scholar with a penchant for…
Michelle Ann Abate Michelle Ann Abate is Professor of Literature for Children and Young Adults at The Ohio State University. Her most recent book is Funny…