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Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years. During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California, Ariel wrote a comic book about her experiences, which she would then…
Unlike many other coloring books that have repetitive patterns, ornate floral forms, or complicated animal configurations for relieving stress, the Landscape Coloring and Graphic Thinking takes a somewhat different approach with creative and graphic thinking for design problem solving embedded with cartoonish joke drawing and narration. Many adults are buying coloring books to color during…
This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity – an understudied research area within classical reception studies – that can shed light on current processes of construction and appropriation of the Greco-Roman world. Classical antiquity has, for many years, been sold as a product and consumed in a wide…
Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it’s easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures? To address…
Answering foundational questions like “what is a comic” and “how do comics work” in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so…
What exactly are comics? Can they be art, literature, or even pornography? How should we understand the characters, stories, and genres that shape them? Thinking about comics raises a bewildering range of questions about representation, narrative, and value. Philosophy of Comics is an introduction to these philosophical questions. In exploring the history and variety of…
Drugged and shackled to the briefcase with gold coins, and to each other, Ryker and Tiara have been left on the yacht to die. To make matters worse, Sasha set a fire onboard, which is beginning to rage. The key is to find a way to be freed, but Ryker wants to take the briefcase…
This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research. Drawing on computer and cognitive science, psychology and art history, linguistics and literary studies, each chapter presents innovative methods and establishes the practical and theoretical motivations for the quantitative study of comics, manga, and graphic novels. Individual chapters focus on corpus studies,…
VALLERO! follows the life of infamous outlaw, Fernando Valle. After a failed heist attempt Fernando sets out to regroup with his band of bandito brothers “Los Valleros”. Fernando encounters a great deal of adventures and misfortune but fame and riches go along with it. VALLERO! captures the magic and nostalgia of the Wild West as…
Another short artist’s book/comic/zine by Sol Nte about creativity in everyday life, inspired by the zines of Mark Gonzales and Harmony Korine.
This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.
This book is a collection of the poetic works of Alexander Pope, one of the greatest English poets of the 18th century. Edited by Samuel Johnson, it includes Pope’s celebrated translations of Homer, as well as his own original poems. This edition also features a detailed biography of Pope’s life. A must-read for anyone interested…
Richard Doyle and William Makepeace Thackeray deliver an entertaining collection of burlesques in this book. The works satirize various elements of society such as social customs, literature, and politics. This book is a light-hearted read that is sure to bring a smile to readers’ faces. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no…
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