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

Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape.

In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy-muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women.

Christianity has been in Japan for five centuries, but embraced by less than one percent of the population.

This is the story of Alex James's transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.

With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain.

The untold story of a British institution'Brilliant.

This set covers all aspects of international hip hop as expressed through music, art, fashion, dance, and political activity.

We think we know Betty and Veronica, but we don't.

Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape.

Science fiction and fantasy comics present colorful if disparate visions of the future, from post-apocalyptic nightmare scenarios and prophetic explorations of technical advances to startling stories of space colonization.

Why does Johan Vilde testify about Sweden's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade?

Fans of Batman are used to seeing the Caped Crusader associate with the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman, but what if one were to put the Dark Knight into the company of figures such as Beowulf, Robin Hood, Oedipus, and Sun Tzu, among others?

El anarquismo no es solo una lucha contra el Estado: es un movimiento diverso que busca ampliar la libertad y oponerse a cualquier forma deopresion.

Why does Johan Vilde testify about Sweden's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade?

Comics and serial print have a long, closely intertwined history, with the earliest comics proliferating in newspapers before gradually migrating to children's magazines.

Comics and serial print have a long, closely intertwined history, with the earliest comics proliferating in newspapers before gradually migrating to children's magazines.

This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies.

This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies.

Dementia and Graphic Medicine explores how graphic medicine-through memoirs by caregivers and families-offers nuanced understandings and humane representations of individuals with dementia that restore their personhood, dignity, and agency.

Dementia and Graphic Medicine explores how graphic medicine-through memoirs by caregivers and families-offers nuanced understandings and humane representations of individuals with dementia that restore their personhood, dignity, and agency.

The official and definitive guide to the dynamic and engrossing characters of the DC multiverse now updated with more than 1,000 entries.

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the nation's children and adults.

This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned.

This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned.

Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world.

Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world.

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume illustrates the many ways that popular culture can be used to teach peace and justice.

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume illustrates the many ways that popular culture can be used to teach peace and justice.

The FOX television show The Simpsons has been around for over 30 years, with more than 700 episodes.

The FOX television show The Simpsons has been around for over 30 years, with more than 700 episodes.

This book explores the diverse landscapes wherein women struggle for their personal and social identities and lives, between biology and culture, destiny and choice, shared and individual worlds, tradition and modernity.

This book explores the diverse landscapes wherein women struggle for their personal and social identities and lives, between biology and culture, destiny and choice, shared and individual worlds, tradition and modernity.

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness.

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness.

A profound meditation on hip hop's transformative power, In the Hour of Chaos takes us deep into the mind of the genre's most unabashed revolutionary.

Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics Since 1914 delves into the rich and diverse history of war comics, exploring how the medium represents and reflects upon global conflicts from World War I to the modern era.

Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics Since 1914 delves into the rich and diverse history of war comics, exploring how the medium represents and reflects upon global conflicts from World War I to the modern era.

There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry.

There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry.

In 1925 the publishers of Broadway Brevities were tried for running an extortion operation targeting New York's social and cultural elites.

In 1925 the publishers of Broadway Brevities were tried for running an extortion operation targeting New York's social and cultural elites.

This book highlights some of the crucial crossroads - moments in which choices as to the future relationship between humans and digital technologies have to be made - that societies face in light of the growing development and adoption of AI.

This book highlights some of the crucial crossroads - moments in which choices as to the future relationship between humans and digital technologies have to be made - that societies face in light of the growing development and adoption of AI.

This Companion explores the evolution, representation, and meaning of superheroes within the broader popular media and culture landscape, as connected to both contemporary and historical frameworks.

This Companion explores the evolution, representation, and meaning of superheroes within the broader popular media and culture landscape, as connected to both contemporary and historical frameworks.