Coco
$35.64Aspiring musician Miguel journeys to the land of the dead to meet his ancestor and change his family’s ban on music. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.
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Comics Art in China
$30.00International Convention of Asia Scholars 2019 Book Prize – Best Art Publication In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present as well as perspectives on both the industry and the…
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Messages from Ukraine
$9.95On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population would be displaced. In the days following the invasion, Swedish migration expert Gregg Bucken-Knapp sent text messages to his Ukrainian colleagues, offering support and assistance….
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Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame
$45.002025 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association2025 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Honorable Mention How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers. Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A…
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Orbit: The Cast of Doctor Who
$7.99Dr. Who is the longest running sci-fi TV series of all time. The secret to its longevity is its uncanny ability to recast the lead actor every few years. But who are the people behind “The Doctor?” THE CAST OF DR. WHO takes you back in time to learn about the personal histories of William…
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Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab: A Graphic Novel
$22.99In Priya Huq’s middle-grade graphic novel Piece by Piece, Nisrin will have to rely on faith, friends, and family to help her recover after she is the target of a hate crime Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives…
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Manga: A Critical Guide
$32.95A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: – The history…
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Kingdom/Order
$19.95If you could talk with the animals, walk with the animals, could you ever go home? Run wild with Kingdom/Order. Kindgom/Order wordlessly follows a nameless man as he searches for meaning in his life. Through symbols and sounds, he is reminded of his part in the greater, natural world, just as he is slowly divorced…
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Korean War Volume 2
$19.99The Korean War (1950 – 1953) is also called the “Forgotten War” by many. Within these pages are the illustrated stories of CPL Rosser who finds himself fighting alone behind enemy lines, Pvt David Mills as he survives being a Prisoner of War at the age of seventeen, a story of Valor with CPL Rodolfo…
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Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia
$28.00The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose…
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On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
$36.95On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power is the first book-length study in English about Black francophone cartoonists and their work. Michelle Bumatay decenters Eurocentric conceptions of francophone comic art and foregrounds the ubiquity of Western racial stereotypes encoded in mainstream French and Belgian bandes dessinées as well as the imbalance of power between the…
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The Humours of Parliament: Harry Furniss’s View of Late-Victorian Political Culture
$35.95Harry Furniss (1854-1925), a leading contributor to Punch and other important illustrated magazines, was arguably the most significant political caricaturist and illustrator of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. He was widely celebrated in his time, and his cartoons helped to define the political world in the public mind. The Humours of Parliament was Furniss’s…
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On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
$99.95On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power is the first book-length study in English about Black francophone cartoonists and their work. Michelle Bumatay decenters Eurocentric conceptions of francophone comic art and foregrounds the ubiquity of Western racial stereotypes encoded in mainstream French and Belgian bandes dessinées as well as the imbalance of power between the…
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The Grateful Fred
$12.99In the third installment of the Melvin Beederman series, someone is out to get the Grateful Fred, Melvin’s all-time favorite rock-and-roll band. 30 illustrations.
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Korean War Comic Books
$49.95Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America’s “forgotten war,” and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imagination. Comics–both…
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The Reluctant Spy
$20.99A grieving Jewish-American scholar and a displaced Palestinian refugee are set on a collision course when a secret intelligence operation intersects with a decades-old family legacy played out in the streets of Cairo and Tel Aviv. The story opens with the shattering of Kenneth (Rossie) Rossberg’s quiet life. A renowned scholar of Islamic studies, Rossie’s…