By Jeffrey A. Brown and Melissa Loucks The comics industry has typically been characterized as a masculine domain. The association of comic books with the dominant…
By Monalesia Earle Abstract: When we think of family, the images that come to mind are inevitably shaped by historical, personal, cultural, religious and social factors. The…
By Christopher J. Hayton Introduction By the 1940s, comic books were attracting concern from various quarters due to the impact they were purported to have on…
By Carolyn Cocca Introduction The words “superhero” and “disability,” at first glance, may not seem to go together. The body types that most comic readers envision…
By Cara Takakjian Many critics have cited Guido Crepax’s Valentina as representative of the liberated woman of the late ’60s. She is the protagonist of her…
By Chris Gavaler Tales of superheroes and zombies, whether in comic books or other pop culture media, contain implicit attitudes about gender and other social constructs…
By Annamarie O’Brien According to Scott Bukatman in “X-Bodies: The Torment of the Mutant Superhero,” superhero narratives “present a significant somatization of modernist and postmodernist social…
By Michael L. Kersulov During a summer enrichment class I taught for gifted high school students, seventeen students eagerly crowded into a classroom to read, discuss,…
By Charles Acheson Heer, Jeet. In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman. Exploded Views. Toronto: Coach House, 2013. Print. She played the…
By Brian Bates Hague, Ian. Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels. NY: Routledge, 2014. pp. 199. $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-71397-9. Comics and…