By Brian Olszewski More than a foundational text for the Batman mythos, 1988’s Batman: The Killing Joke continues to inspire peer-reviewed responses as well as…
By Christopher Younie Wei Dong Chen’s 2012 comic series Adventures from China: Monkey King1 helps bring Wu Ch’êng-ên’s sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West2 out…
By Jake Zawlacki Abstract: The practice of the homage cover dates back to the very beginnings of the superhero genre, beginning as early as Action…
Matthew Brake is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College. He is the series editor of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture…
By Jason DeHart Cohn, Neil. Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. As an educator, I sometimes encounter pushback on…
Matthew Brake George Mason University Ken Koltun-Fromm, Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination Comics & Graphic Novels. The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2020.…
By Jesse Matlock Indiana University R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self, David Stephen Calonne, Jackson, MS, University Press of Mississippi, 2021, 288…
By Chandler Mordecai D’Amore, Laura Mattoon. Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny: Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. In her monograph,…
By Noah Mullens Utell, Janine, editor. The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. Print. Scholarship on Alison Bechdel…
By Sophia Pan Liu, Jing. Understanding China Through Comics. 4 vols. Stone Bridge Press, 2016-17. Jing Liu’s Understanding China Through Comics series offers Western readers…