By Eric Berlatsky Over the past several years, discussions of racial and/or ethnic diversity in comics have increased by an order of magnitude. Big superhero comics…
By Catherine Corder Grennan, Simon and Laurence Grove, eds. Transforming Anthony Trollope: Dispossession, Victorianism and Nineteenth-Century Word and Image. Leuven University Press, 2015. Novelists in nineteenth-century…
By Christopher Haynes Beaty, Bart. Twelve-Cent Archie. Rutgers University Press, 2015. Comics scholarship has struggled to move beyond gatekeeping questions of legitimation. In its mix of…
By Ashley Manchester Fawaz, Ramzi. The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics. New York University Press, 2016. In The New Mutants: Superheroes and…
By Erica McCrystal Burke, Liam. The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre. University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Through an examination of the recent…
By Molly Scanlon Brown, Jeffrey A. Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2015. In his most recent publication, Beyond Bombshells:…
Charles Acheson Charles Acheson is a doctoral student in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Charles’s areas of research include nonfiction comics,…