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

In What the Dog Saw Malcolm Gladwell covers everything from criminology to spaghetti sauce to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about ourselves and our world.

Ever wondered what a superhero eats for breakfast?

The blockbuster superhero movie: popular entertainment or capitalist propaganda?

An important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyesA vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world.

"e;Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose.

From Detroit Red to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the man best known as Malcolm X restlessly redefined himself throughout a controversial life.

Neighbors From Hell finds itself nestled in the "e;children's book for adults"e; niche in the vein of Go the Fuck to Sleep.

The Secret Life of a Satanist steps behind the curtain with the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan.

This complete guide provides lessons and insights from 100 professional artists!

The classic text by renowned manga expert in a beautiful new casebound edition, with a new foreword and afterword by the author.

The Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is a revered eight-hundred-year-old Zen Buddhism classic written by the Japanese monk Eihei Dogen.

Fascinating insights on what Japanese manga and anime mean to artists, audiences, and fans in the United States and elsewhere, covering topics that range from fantasy to sex to politics.

Describes the dramatic effects people experience when consuming psychoactive mushrooms.

Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushrooms Field Guide tells how to find wild mushrooms in America.

Doctors think they heal with drugs.

Traces the history of the use of hallucinogenic drugs and discusses the psychological and physical effects of LSD, marijuana, mescaline, and other drugs.

Cooking with Cannabis includes everything from soup to nuts.

OUT NOW: The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon I love Emma Gannon's wise and refreshing perspective on work, and more broadly on the challenges of building a meaningful life in an era of distraction, overwhelm and uncertainty.

Longing for an Absent God unveils the powerful role of faith and doubt in the American literary tradition.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER ';This funny, insightful, and deliciously dishy memoir' (Town & Country) from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, and Glory, creator of thirtysomething, and executive producer of My So-Called Life, ';takes its place alongside Adventures in the Screen Trade and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls as one of the indispensable behind-the-scenes books for fans of movies and television' (Aaron Sorkin).

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.

The book offers a diverse and rich picture of current research on the literature and culture of the American West.

The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media.

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.

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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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.

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.

Central to every vampire story is the undead's need for human blood, but equally compelling is the human ingestion of vampire blood, which often creates a bond.

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.