By Brandon Murakami Pard, Chantale. Anime Clubs for Public Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Chantale Pard is no stranger to…
By Ryan Kerr More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, edited by Matthew J. Smith, et al., Routledge, 2019. In the introduction to their…
By Sourav Chatterjee Williams, Paul. Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics. Rutgers University Press, 2020. Wait, what?! There were graphic novels in the…
By Joshua Paddison Gordon, Ian. Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Jim Davis’s “Garfield”—along with Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts,” the most…
By Cathlena Martin Alberti, John, Ed. Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Detroit: Wayne State U P, 2004. While ImageTexT is an interdisciplinary journal…
By Sudha Shastri Foer, Jonathan Safran. Everything is Illuminated: A Novel. New York: Perennial, 2003. Everything is Illuminated is a novel composed essentially of two narrative voices: of…
by Tof Eklund Dowd, D.B., Gerald Early, M. Todd Hignite and Daniel Raeburn, Eds. The Rubber Frame: Essays in Culture and Comics. St. Louis: Steinhour Press (in…
By Travis Fristoe Howe, Sean, Ed. Give our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics. New York, NY: Pantheon, 2004. Given the undying popularity of superhero comics,…
By James R. Fleming Klock, Geoff. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why. New York and London: Continuum, 2002. In How to Read Superhero Comics and Why, Geoff Klock…
By Vanessa Raney Burns, Charles. Black Hole. Nos. 1-12. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphic Books, 1995-2005. Charles Burns’ twelve-volume comics serial Black Hole is difficult to summarize, if only because it visually…