Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter
$57.99This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.
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Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga
$49.99Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of diversity and religious pluralism.
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Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics
$200.00This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.
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Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism
$200.00This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in…
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The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative
$200.00In a spirit of community and collective action, this volume offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements.
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Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées
$200.00Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of comics through their novels, from the 19th to 21th centuries. It provides an overview of a poorly catalogued and understudied corpus, while also affording first original insights into them
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Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées
$57.99Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of comics through their novels, from the 19th to 21th centuries. It provides an overview of a poorly catalogued and understudied corpus, while also affording first original insights into them
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The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives
$190.00This book considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction narratives can explore diverse issues to bridge ideas across cultural, social, and philosophical analysis.
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Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists
$15.95Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists is the first-ever book about the pen and ink artists who worked in both pulps and comics, and what happened to them. This informative and entertaining volume offers an intriguing look at interior pulp illustrations created by artists who eventually gained greater fame…
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The G.I. Papers – Volume 1: The Comic Book Adventures of the Real American Hero
$9.99This book takes a narrative, issue-by-issue look at Marvel’s G.I. Joe comic, written by Larry Hama, generally regarded as the official story of the Real American Hero. Also included in this volume — Marvel’s G.I. Joe Special Missions title, the G.I. Joe Yearbooks, the G.I. Joe/Transformers mini-series, G.I. Joe Order of Battle, and more!
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50 Things to Know about Comic Books: Starting Your Next Superhero Obsession
$11.9750 Things to Know About Comic Books by Kevin offers an approach to beginning a new obsession with superheroes and comic books. Most books on comics tell you to “pick a side” between DC and Marvel. Although there’s nothing wrong with that in these pages you’ll discover how much more there is to offer. By…
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Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds
$99.99Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences.
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Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture
$54.99Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.
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Documentary Comics: Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
$89.99Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.
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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
$225.00Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don’t conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other…
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Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
$200.00Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Nhora LucÃa Serrano and a diverse group of contributors examine immigrant experience as they navigate…