By Jason DeHart Cohn, Neil. Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. As an educator, I sometimes encounter pushback on…
Matthew Brake George Mason University Ken Koltun-Fromm, Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination Comics & Graphic Novels. The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2020.…
By Jesse Matlock Indiana University R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self, David Stephen Calonne, Jackson, MS, University Press of Mississippi, 2021, 288…
By Chandler Mordecai D’Amore, Laura Mattoon. Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny: Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. In her monograph,…
By Noah Mullens Utell, Janine, editor. The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. Print. Scholarship on Alison Bechdel…
By Sophia Pan Liu, Jing. Understanding China Through Comics. 4 vols. Stone Bridge Press, 2016-17. Jing Liu’s Understanding China Through Comics series offers Western readers…
By Victoria Rahbar Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan is arguing with her mother because “What project requires a burkini at 10pm on a school night?” (Figure…
By Daun Fields Chong, Vivian and Georgia Webber. Dancing After TEN: A Graphic Memoir. Fantagraphics Books, 2020. “Inside a dog is pure joy. Listening patiently…
By Jason DeHart Guynes, Sean and Martin Lund. Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Ohio State Press, 2020. I first note my positionality as…
By Jackson Ayres Costello, Brannon and Brian Cremins, eds. The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2021. Scholars and…