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  • Walt Kelly and Pogo

    The Art of the Political Swamp

    by James Eric Black ...
    One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R. Murrow's radar. The strip's satire was so biting, it was often relegated to newspaper editorial sections at a time when artists in other media were blacklisted for far less. Pogo was the vanguard of today's ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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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 USD

  • Grant Morrison

    Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics

    by Marc Singer ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres-superhero, science fiction, and fantasy-that dominate the American and British comics industries. His comics range from bestsellers featuring the most universally recognized superhero franchises (All ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Comic Book Film Adaptation

    Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre

    by Liam Burke ...
    In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Superwomen

    Gender, Power, and Representation

    by Professor Carolyn Cocca ...
    Winner of the 2017 Eisner Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category2017 Prose Awards Honorable Mention, Media & Cultural StudiesOver the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, more ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Comic Shop

    The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture

    by Dan Gearino ...
    The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers. Stores could then better customize their offerings and independent publishers could access national distribution. Shops opened up a space for quirky ideas to gain an audience and helped transform ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

    Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

    by Robert Jacobs, Mick Broderick, John Canaday, Tom Engelhardt, Carole Gallagher, Judy Hiramoto, Kenji Ito, Minoru Maeda, Naoko Maeda, Yuki Tanaka, Spencer Weart ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • 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

    $21.59 USD

  • Critical Approaches to Comics

    Theories and Methods

    Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Randy Duncan ...
    Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Welcome to the Multiverse: An Unauthorised Examination of Grant Morrison's Multiversity

    Guides to Comics, TV, and SF

    by Andrew Hickey ...
    Series series Guides to Comics, TV, and SF
    Andrew Hickey, author of An Incomprehensible Condition: An Unauthorised Guide To Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, takes a brief, discursive, tour through the many worlds of Grant Morrison's Multiversity series.Not authorised in any way by DC Comics, this is not a guidebook, and not annotations. Rather, it's a series of essays meditating on the themes of the comic, sometimes with only loose ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fascist Lizards from Outer Space

    The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural History of Kenneth Johnson's V

    by Dan Copp ...
    When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Yet the 2009 V reboot was cancelled in its second season, despite a robust premiere. Both versions were products of their respective times, but the original was inspired by ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Mechademia 9

    Origins

    Edited by Frenchy Lunning ...
    Series series Mechademia
    If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan, the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects of Japanese culture and history gave rise to these media. This ninth volume of Mechademia—an annual collection of critical work on anime and manga—challenges the tendency to answer the question of origins by reductively generalizing and essentializing “Japaneseness. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD