Comics: An Introduction
$33.99Comics provides a clear and accessible introduction to the Comics form – including graphic narratives and a range of other genres – with sections explaining key terms, history, theories and major themes.
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Comics: An Introduction
$150.00Comics: An Introduction provides a clear and detailed introduction to the Comics form – including graphic narratives and a range of other genres – explaining key terms, history, theories, and major themes. The book uses a variety of examples to show the rich history as well as the current cultural relevance and significance of Comics….
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The Routledge Companion to Comics
$65.99This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of…
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Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities
$61.99This volume examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. Chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in 21st century (con)texts. Authors demonstrate that the
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Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
$200.00This book explores the so-called “British Invasion” of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.
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Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
$57.99This book explores the so-called “British Invasion” of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.
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“Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics
$200.00Comics have been an important locus of queer female identity, community, and politics for generations. Whether taking the form of newspaper strips, comic books, or graphic novels and memoirs, the medium has a long history of featuring female same-sex attraction, relationships, and identity. This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status…
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“Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics
$57.99Comics have been an important locus of queer female identity, community, and politics for generations. Whether taking the form of newspaper strips, comic books, or graphic novels and memoirs, the medium has a long history of featuring female same-sex attraction, relationships, and identity. This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status…
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Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction
$70.99This book provides student journalists, artists, designers, creative writers and web producers with the tools and techniques they need to tell nonfiction stories visually and graphically. Weaving together history, theory, and practical advice, seasoned nonfiction comics professors and scholars Randy Duncan, Michael Ray Taylor and David Stoddard present a hands-on approach to teach readers from…
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Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities
$225.00This volume examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. Chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in 21st century (con)texts. Authors demonstrate that the field of comic book production and circulation in…
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American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre
$225.00This book explores the idea of the “American monomyth” that pervades American hero stories and examines its philosophical and theological origins and specific manifestations in early American superhero comics. Surveying the anthropologies of six American theologians who argue against many of the monomyth’s assumptions, principally the staunch individualism taken to be the model of humanity,…
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Comic Book Sketch Book: Create Your Own Phenomenal Comic Strips
$21.50Step into a world where imagination knows no bounds with our extraordinary Comic Book Sketch Book! Break free from the clutches of screens and plunge into a realm of boundless creativity. What sets this sketchbook apart? It’s crafted with quality paper that holds your colors in place without betraying them on the other side. The…
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Graphic Novel Sketch Book: Create Your Own Phenomenal Graphic Novels
$20.50Unleash your inner artist and dive into the vibrant world of graphic novels with our Graphic Novel Sketch Book! Say goodbye to endless screen time and hello to boundless creativity! What sets this sketch book apart? Our quality paper ensures minimal bleed-through, providing you with a flawless canvas to bring your ideas to life. With…
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The World of DC Comics
$28.99The first sustained study of the DC Comics Multiverse, this book explores its history, meanings, and lasting influence. The multiverse is a unique exercise in world-building: a series of parallel and interactive worlds with a cohesive cosmology, developed by various creators over fifty years.
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Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis
$200.00This book explores comics as examples of moral outrage against a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. It will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology and medical humanities.
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Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis
$56.99This book explores comics as examples of moral outrage against a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. It will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology and medical humanities.