Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Reference, guides and reviews

This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.

This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.

In recent years, a new market of convergence culture has developed.

In recent years, a new market of convergence culture has developed.

Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world.

Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world.

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated.

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated.

This is the first academic volume to examine the librarian and archival professional through the lens of sequential art.

Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual.

Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual.

In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.

In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.

The first look at the philosophy behind the Captain America comics and movies, publishing in advance of the movie release of Captain America: The Winter Solider in April 2014.

The first look at the philosophy behind the Captain America comics and movies, publishing in advance of the movie release of Captain America: The Winter Solider in April 2014.

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic.

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic.

People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future.

Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glamuncovers a forgotten yet fascinating chapter on glam rock music and culturefrom Canada.

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes.

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes.

Destruction, 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.

Destruction, 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.

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast.

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast.

This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest.

This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest.

This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives.

This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives.

This book explores the so-called "e;British Invasion"e; of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.

This book explores the so-called "e;British Invasion"e; of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.

The Victorians are usually painted as prim, proper and repressed.

The Victorians are usually painted as prim, proper and repressed.

This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.

This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.

This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States-Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden-whose work has attracted significant attention.

This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States-Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden-whose work has attracted significant attention.

This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "e;wordless novels"e; of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel.

This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "e;wordless novels"e; of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel.

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901.

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901.

This book presents a unique series of graphic narratives which offer a new way to recount the lived experiences and life stories of women involved in transnational organised crime groups, from victims to perpetrators.

This book presents a unique series of graphic narratives which offer a new way to recount the lived experiences and life stories of women involved in transnational organised crime groups, from victims to perpetrators.

Through a celebration and critique of the comics character of Wonder Woman, this collection takes up the historical trends that have changed the world of comics, American popular culture, and feminism.

Through a celebration and critique of the comics character of Wonder Woman, this collection takes up the historical trends that have changed the world of comics, American popular culture, and feminism.

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence.

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence.