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The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television provides one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture. Since the 1980s, pop culture has focused on what makes a villain a villain. The Joker, Darth Vader, and Hannibal Lecter have all been placed…
This compilation of essential information on 100 superheroes from comic book issues, various print and online references, and scholarly analyses provides readers all of the relevant material on superheroes in one place. The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in History covers the history of superheroes and superheroines in America from approximately 1938-2010 in an…
Jim Beard’s Read Every Issue of Marvel Team-Up…So You Don’t Have To! It was one of the offspring of Marvel Comics’ 1972 explosion of new titles, a wonderful way to weave a wider web for the company’s flagship hero, the Amazing Spider-Man, and invite other characters into that web for team-up tales in the Mighty…
Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world. While it is often observed that these media forms appeal to broad and diverse demographics, including many adults, eroticism continues to unsettle critics and has even triggered legal action in some jurisdictions. It…
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comic studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional…
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), anti-racist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic minority and immigrant heritage are a major…
The French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely dominated by syndicated translations of American comics and comics inspired by a Catholic ethos. It tailored its content and tone to an older adolescent reader far removed from that of France’s infant comic. Pilote’s profile set it on a turbulent…
Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. This book brings a historical, aesthetic, and narratological approach to comics in which boredom is not only a topic but also awakens a deliberate affective response in the very experience of reading. This volume brings…
This volume is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays in the fields of nineteenth-century history, adaptation, word/image and Victorianism. Featuring new writing by some of the most influential, respected and radical scholars in these fields, Transforming Anthony Trollope constitutes both a close companion to Simon Grennan’s 2015 graphic novel Dispossession–an adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s 1879 novel…
The essays collected in this volume were first presented at the international and interdisciplinary conference on the Graphic Novel hosted by the Institute for Cultural Studies (University of Leuven) in 2000.The issues discusses by the conference are twofold. Firstly, that of trauma representation, an issue escaping by definition from any imaginable specific field. Secondly, that…
Un ritratto intimo di Gianni De Luca e della sua complessa personalità artistica da parte della figlia, Laura De Luca, attraverso una serie di ricordi di vita vissuta ricostruiti e rielaborati, a distanza di anni, con la consapevolezza dell’età adulta. A questo ritratto personale si affianca il contributo di Gianni Brunoro che ne ricostruisce, attraverso…
Miles Morales: Cruzando el mito arácnido es un ensayo centrado en Miles Morales, la historia del Spiderverso y la pelÃcula Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. A lo largo de sus páginas se repasa la vida editorial de Miles, su trayectoria dentro y fuera de las viñetas, el valor que ha aportado al legado de Spider-Man, el…
How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and…
Was macht den Comic als Medium aus? Wer oder was macht ihn zu einem Medium? Für die Erforschung von Comics gibt es bislang keinen allgemein verbindlichen Medienbegriff: Zu divers scheinen sie, wenn sie aus Texten und Bildern arrangiert, in Zeitungen gedruckt, als Hefte gesammelt, als graphic novels besprochen oder auf Smartphones gelesen werden. Die Medien…
Intersektionalität ist eine disziplinenübergreifende analytische Perspektive, mit deren Hilfe sowohl die Konstitution und Verschränkung identitätslogischer Kategorien als auch multiple Formen der Diskriminierung und normativen Klassifizierung betrachtet werden. Intersektionalität steht in enger Beziehung zu den Gender-, Queer- oder auch Dis/Ability und Postcolonial Studies. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der ‘sequenziellen Kunst’ aus intersektionaler Perspektive ist ein Desiderat der…
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