By Graham J. Murphy Graphic novels (known alternately as comic books, sequential art, or the funny books) are only recently generating significant scholarly attention and respect,…
By Rex Krueger Wake Up is a curious book: ostensibly a superhero comic in the Daredevil1 series, it seems to have few or no elements standard to…
By Patrick Lynn Rivers New Right conservatives in the United States have been circuitously linked to the “new racism.” The association tends to focus upon New…
By Stephen J. Lind Introduction Charles Monroe “Sparky” Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip was like none before it. The children-filled frames took the world by storm, fulfilling Sparky Schulz’s…
By Hanli Geyser Ciccoricco, David. Reading Network Fiction. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2007. It was hard for me to place how I felt about David…
By Katherine Shaeffer Stanford University Graphic Novel Project. Shake Girl: A Graphic Novel. Edited by Adam Johnson and Tom Kealey. Stanford University, 2008. WHEN I MEET Tat…
By Ellen Gil-Gómez Pérez-Sánchez, Gema. Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to La Movida. SUNY ser. In Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture. Gracia and…
By Tof Eklund Abel, Jessica, and Matt Madden. Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond. New York: First Second, 2008. Abel and Madden’s…
By Joseph Witek This prodigious bibliography of educational and non-fictional comics compiled by pioneering comics researcher Sol Davidson supplies scholars with the first detailed and methodically…
By John Van Hook In organizing the following bibliography of 2500 “educational” comics Sol Davidson faced two daunting hurdles, which he modestly calls “judgment calls”: what…