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Post*45 eBook Series

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  • Projections

    Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

    by Jared Gardner ...
    Series series Post*45
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • 1,000 Comic Books You Must Read

    by Tony Isabella ...
    Hero Worship!1000 Comic Books You Must Read is an unforgettable journey through 70 years of comic books. Arranged by decade, this book introduces you to 1000 of the best comic books ever published and the amazing writers and artists who created them.• See Superman from his debut as a sarcastic champion of the people, thumbing his nose at authority, to his current standing as a respected citizen of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Wonder Woman

    Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948

    by Noah Berlatsky ...
    Series series Comics Culture
    William Marston was an unusual man—a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder Woman, the comic that he used to express two of his greatest passions: feminism and women in bondage.Comics expert Noah Berlatsky takes us on a wild ride through the Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Superman on Film, Television, Radio and Broadway

    by Bruce Scivally ...
    First introduced in a 1938 comic book, Superman has since become an iconic character in American entertainment. This complete history covers Superman's appearances in film and television, from the 1941 introduction of the first Superman cartoon to the 2006 live-action film Superman Returns. The book includes several rarely seen photographs of the actors who have brought Superman to life for over ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah

    Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard

    Edited by Eric Hoffman ...
    In December 1977, struggling Canadian comic book artist Dave Sim self-published the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, a Conan the Barbarian satire featuring a foul-tempered, sword-wielding creature trapped in a human world. Over the next 26 years, Sim, and later collaborator Gerhard, produced an epic 6,000-page graphic novel, the longest-running English language comic series by a single ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • CLAMP in Context

    A Critical Study of the Manga and Anime

    by Dani Cavallaro ...
    Since its debut manga RG Veda, CLAMP has steadily asserted itself as one of the most widely renowned teams of manga artists, leaving a durable imprint in every established genre while also devising novel formulas along the way. Endowed not only with stylistic distinctiveness but also comprehensive cultural structure, CLAMP's output is distinguished by unique worldbuilding flair and visual vitality ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • More Words about Pictures

    Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People

    Edited by Perry Nodelman, Naomi Hamer, Mavis Reimer ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and about young people. When Perry Nodelman’s Words about Pictures: the Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Books was published almost three decades ago, it was greeted as an ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero

    Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set

    Edited by Sherry Ginn ...
    First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, was introduced to movie audiences in Iron Man 2 (2010). Her character has grown in popularity with subsequent Marvel films, and fans have been vocal about wanting to see Black Widow in a titular role. Romanoff has potent appeal: a strong female character who is not defined by her looks or her romantic ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Comics and Language

    Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

    by Hannah Miodrag ...
    It has become an axiom in comic studies that “comics is a language, not a genre.” But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the “grammar” and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The World of Shaft

    A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series

    by Steve Aldous ...
    Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music. But the black private dick who inspired the blaxploitation film genre actually made his debut on the printed page as the creation of a white novelist.Ernest Tidyman was a seasoned journalist down on his luck when ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche

    A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film

    by James R. Keller ...
    The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine. Paralleling the graphic novel, the film simultaneously reflects a range of authorial ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Manga in America

    Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics

    by Casey Brienza ...
    Japanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have “invaded” and “conquered” the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture challenging American hegemony in the twenty-first century.In Manga in America - the first ever book-length study of the history, structure, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD