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

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define.

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define.

From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them.

From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them.

This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time.

Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and 'staid', upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way.

At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in linemostly femaleflip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand.

Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass.

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them.

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them.

Long before Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, there was Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

In this beautifully written and powerful memoir, author Craig K.

Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish!

Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact.

Since the Punisher's first appearance in the pages of Spider-Man #129, the character has become one of the most popular and controversial figures in Marvel's vast universe.

The choices that individuals make in moments of crisis can transform them.

From 1985 to 1995, Mark Gruenwald was the head writer for Captain America.

For decades, Marvel Comics' superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar grossing films or video games.

Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow.

What comes to mind when you think about superheroes?

Peter David, award-winning writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games, has boatloads of stories to tell about his 30-year career.

Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire.

Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward.

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the multitude of non-Archie teen humor comic books, including girls and boys such as Patsy Walker, Hedy Wolfe, Buzz Baxter and Wendy Parker from Marvel; Judy Foster, Buzzy, Binky and Scribbly from DC; Candy from Quality Comics; and Hap Hazard from Ace Comics.

As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaster.

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In 2010, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic premiered on television.

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more.

Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race.

Black Panther was the first black superhero in mainstream comic books, and his most iconic adventures are analyzed here.

While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast.

This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics.

What makes a successful comics creator?

Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority.

In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena.

The debut of Saturday Night Live and the 1976 presidential election between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter had enduring effects on American culture.

The 1950s television game show was a cultural touchstone, reflecting the zeitgeist of a flourishing modern nation.

In the midst of acne, social anxiety and training bras are the teen idols that make adolescent life a little more bearable.

Like other forms of fan fiction, slash fiction--centered on same-sex relationships between two or more characters--is a powerful cultural dialogue.

Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Katherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly--the five known victims of Jack the Ripper--are among the most written-about women in history.

A childhood comic book fan turned comic book retailer, the author soon discovered the prevalence of scams in the world of comics collecting.

Prior to the collapse of communism, Romanian historical movies were political, encouraging nationalistic feelings and devotion to the state.

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit.

Wolverine.

How did Hawaiian and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in less than a century?

Since her first appearance in 1992, Harley Quinn--eccentric sidekick to the Joker--has captured the attention of readers like few new characters have in eight decades of Batman comics.

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias.

Toys--those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children's imaginative play--have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction.