Hellboy’s World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins

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“A revelation . . . as complex, challenging, and ‘monstrous’ as the comics the book explores. Whether he’s talking virtual subjects, Blade Runner, or Hellboy, Scott Bukatman is savagely brilliant and utterly indispensable.”–Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of This Is How You Lose Her

“In Bukatman’s capable hands, we find ample demonstration of the special wondrousness that books can possess for us as we try to possess them (and not just comic books). They are objects wonderful to behold, wonderful to hold and enter into. And Bukatman’s own tome is in this respect a splendid thing: a beautifully produced work that lovingly offers insights that radiate from every page to invoke the enduring and inevitable bookishness inhering within our visual culture. A sublime investigation of comic books as sites/sights of essential world-building.”–Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film

“Hellboy’s World is a smart, provocative book that showcases Bukatman’s lucid and sparkling writing throughout. It’s a pleasure to read such a lively academic book–and it is lively not just because of its subject matter, a superhero comic of sorts, but also because of Bukatman’s energy and dedication to his subject.”–Hillary L. Chute, author of Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form