By Sergio C. Figueiredo The father of the modern comic in many ways is Rodolphe Töpffer, whose light satiric picture stories, starting in the mid-1800’s, employed cartooning and panel borders, and featured…
By Vincent Haddad In this scene from Chris Ware’s graphic novel Building Stories (fig. 1), the protagonist meekly hovers over her husband, arms planted firmly at her…
By Daniel Marrone The metapicture is not a subgenre within the fine arts but a fundamental potentiality inherent in pictorial representation as such: it is…
By Dominic Davies Ayaka, Carolene and Ian Hague, eds. Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Since the attacks on the…
By Jaquelin Elliott Schoell, William. The Horror Comics: Fiends, Freaks, and Fantastic Creatures, 1940s—1980s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. It is no secret that little scholarly attention…
By Catherine Kasper Hoffman, Eric and Dominick Grace, eds. Seth: Conversations. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2015. Seth: Conversations, edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace, is part…
By Derek Parker Royal Jason Sacks. American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s. Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2014. In his introduction to American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s, the…
By Stephen Tabachnick Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews. Ed. Sarah Lightman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. Edited by Sarah Lightman, the…
Dominic Davies Dominic Davies is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil in March…