By James R. Fleming Fingeroth, Danny. Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Our Society. New York and London: Continuum, 2005. ISBN: 0-8264-1540-7…
By Emma Tinker Raeburn, Daniel. Chris Ware. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2004. Even outside the cliques of the “comics community,” Chris Ware is rapidly becoming the biggest,…
By James Bucky Carter 40 Years of The Amazing Spider-Man. DVD-ROM. Graphic Imaging Technology. New York: Marvel Comics, 2004. 44 Years of Fantastic Four. DVD-ROM. Graphic…
By Vanessa Raney “I learned the way to write a short story is to start with the end of it.” Will Eisner. Will Eisner: The Spirit…
By Michael Mayne Lamb, Chris. Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons. New York: Columbia UP, 2004. Perhaps maps fascinate us because…
By Ione Damasco Inness, Sherrie A. Ed. Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. The recent emergence of the…
By James Fleming Oropeza, B.J. The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture. Foreword by Stan Lee. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. Owed, perhaps, to…
By Tof Eklund Beaty, Bart. Fredric Wertham And The Critique Of Mass Culture. Oxford: University Press of Missippi, 2005. For some time now, the smart money has…
By Lelac Almagor Brown, Jeffrey A. Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans (Studies in Popular Culture). Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. In his 2001 survey…
By Elizabeth Sandifer Moore, Alan and Melinda Gebbie. Lost Girls. Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2006. For a work so self-professedly invested in explicitness, Alan Moore…