Graphic novels, Comic books, Manga, Cartoons

Leiji Matsumoto is one of Japan's most influential myth creators.

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

Exploring image and imagination in conjunction with natural environments, the animal, and the human, this collection of essays turns the ecocritical and ecocompositional gaze upon comic studies.

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 1938, Superman debuted, jumping off the pages of Action Comics #1.

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.

Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media.

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.

Persia had Rostam.

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.

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Rowena Sunder, still an artist in 2018, composes a meta auto-biographical book about five years of her life in New York City between 1965 and 1970.

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.

Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965.

Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy.

Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history.

Action figures are more than toys or collectibles--they are statements on race, gender, class, body positivity and more.

Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide.

Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero.

Ed "e;Big Daddy"e; Roth (1932-2001) was a phenomenon.

Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of new essays describes innovative teaching strategies that use our cultural fascination with monsters to enhance learning in high school and college courses.

Soap operas have captured loyal, often lifelong viewers since the first American daytime serial debuted in 1949.

The first superhero team from the Silver Age of comics, DC's Justice League has seen many iterations since its first appearance in 1960.

Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today.

This critical study of video games since 9/11 shows how a distinct genre emerged following the terrorist attacks and their aftermath.

Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s.

When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake.

Santa Claus is in trouble!

The director's authorial role in filmmaking--the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision--has been much debated among film critics and scholars for decades.

The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend.

Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968.

New York's repertory movie houses specialized in presenting films ignored by mainstream and art house audiences.

First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.

Marvel Studios' approach to its Cinematic Universe--beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)--has become the template for successful management of blockbuster film properties.

In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham's Fables.

The Incredible Hulk is one of the earliest Marvel Comics superheroes.