By Brannon Costello When it began its run in late 1987, Howard Chaykin’s three-part Blackhawk mini-series drew admiration from comics readers attracted to his innovative visual style…
By Bruce Dadey In his seminal work The Body and Society, Bryan Turner proposes that a sociological understanding of disease must “combine the notions that (1) disease…
By Rachel Dean-Ruzicka “[Graphic autobiographies], to me, signal the potential of this autographic moment in life narrative studies and to invite new theorizing of subjectivity, genre,…
By Charles Fanning 1 In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), Michael Chabon evokes the cultural apogee during the Great Depression of…
By Matthew Levy and Heather Mathews1 The original script to Watchmen, typed in all caps on a manual typewriter by Alan Moore, begins with what could be…
By Kathryn Hemmann Saitō Tamaki. Beautiful Fighting Girl. Trans. J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Print. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson’s…
By Cameron Kunzelman Beaty, Bart. Comics Versus Art. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Print. Bart Beaty’s Comics Versus Art is an analysis of the relationship between comics and…
By Aaron Kashtan Jared Gardner’s Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First Century Storytelling is an exciting book which I hope will represent the beginning of a new…
By Tim Lanzendörfer Beaty, Bart. Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. A review of Bart Beaty’s 2007…
By John Rodzvilla Beaty, Bart, and Stephen Weiner. Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents and Underground Classics. Ipswich, Mass: Salem Press, 2012. Print. “Graphic Novel” is a…