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DC Comics’ Joker has been a goofy trickster, a giggling lunatic, a psychopathic killer, a methodical mastermind, a failed comedian, and an unstoppable force. It all depends on the writer and artist telling the story. He’s the Clown Prince of Crime, the Man Who Laughs, an agent of chaos. He has no special abilities or…
She’s the Amazing Amazon! The celebrated champion of her people! She’s WONDER WOMAN! And she’s the greatest superhero this world has ever seen. A lifelong fan lays out WW’s legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment, and lessons that Princess Diana has shown us through the…
A god and a fool walk into a bar… In Holy Fools and Funny Gods, philosopher and cartoonist Izar Lunacek explores the surprising intersections between religion and comedy. Many view religion as a monument to eternal truth. Comedy, on the other hand, is the eternal iconoclast. This conflict between jokers and the faithful frequently marks…
Courtship and Marriage is a novel by Annie S. Swan that explores the themes of love, family, and social class in Victorian England. The story follows the life of the protagonist, Margaret, as she navigates the complexities of courtship and marriage. Margaret is a young woman from a middle-class family who falls in love with…
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of…
The final chapter in a body of cut-and-paste work that is difficult to categorize but has sometimes been referred to as “graphic poetry.” Culled from decades of hunting and gathering in the underground, Ahlers has filled many binders to overflowing. Swan Song revisits the black and white photocopier esthetic of her genre-bending and influential book…
ARE YOU RUGGED OR UNRUGGED? According to Rugged Dude Carson (his real name): “This is the ultimate guide to bringing even a rugged dude or dudette in training all the way up to Rugged Certified status! Even if you live in a high rise building in the city, and drive a Toyota Prius, there is…
Ernest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature–reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner–extending even into comic books. Appearing variously with Superman, Mickey Mouse, Captain Marvel, and Cerebus, he has even battled fascists alongside Wolverine in Spain and teamed up with Shade to battle adversaries in the…
ndie, I Love Lucy, and The Twilight Zone all have in common? What did Chic Young, the cartoonist who created the Blondie comic strip, think of the films? Blondie Goes To Hollywood is the first and only book to answer these questions and tell the untold story of the Blondie films from their creation, their…
Growing up in a fractious household in working-class Brooklyn, my mother dreamt of living in France, of experiencing “civilization.” As for myself, molded by the gloomy obsessions of the adults around me, I sought refuge as a child in a Japanese anime titled Lady Oscar, and its story of a woman forced into the role…
Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel’s dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation…
An anthology of essays exploring the origins of the authors’ relationships to their favorite superheroes; including stories from Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, Joe Lansdale and more! As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as deep as this long awaited anthology underscores. Liesa Mignogna the VP,…
This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyze graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: What…
Who is the most truly heroic–Captain America or Iron Man? The writers in this book try to answer that question from many diverse viewpoints.
Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don’t heroes simply take over the world? Economics and comics may seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic book hero aficionado Brian O’Roark, the two form a powerful alliance….
In The Balete Curse: Eyes Among the Branches, the KSPS team faces their greatest challenge yet-restoring balance to a forest corrupted by betrayal and greed. As Sofia, Kent, and their allies uncover the truth behind the forest’s haunting whispers and the malevolent presence of the Betrayer, they must confront their fears and unravel a curse…
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