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  • Let’s Go Exploring

    Calvin and Hobbes

    by Michael Hingston ...
    Series Book 10 - Pop Classics
    A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic stripThe internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there’s one thing that’s universally beloved: Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, the strip won numerous awards and drew tens of millions of readers from all around the world. The story of a boy and his best ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Secret History of Wonder Woman

    by Jill Lepore ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century.“Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Dangerous Curves

    Comics' Sexiest Bad Girls

    by Brent Frankenhoff ...
    Series series CBG Presents
    The oh-so-sexy but oh-so-dangerous dames of the comic book world. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Soul of the Dark Knight

    Batman as Mythic Figure in Comics and Film

    by Alex M. Wainer ...
    This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character's longevity is largely due to the medium's unique formal qualities. It argues that Batman's core appeal is his mythic nature which allows him to transcend changes in reader tastes, the vicissitudes of the comics industry, and the changing media landscape. While including some historical ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner ...
    For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death.This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Autobiographical Comics

    Life Writing in Pictures

    by Elisabeth El Refaie ...
    A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth.In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Superheroines and the Epic Journey

    Mythic Themes in Comics, Film and Television

    by Valerie Estelle Frankel ...
    The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews Volume One

    by Michael Molcher, Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith, Mick McMahon ...
    Series Book 1 - 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews
    Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine. In this first collection Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith and Mick McMahon discuss their work in comics, 2000 AD and many other titles in great detail. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • An Incomprehensible Condition: An Unauthorised Guide to Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers

    Guides to Comics, TV, and SF

    by Andrew Hickey ...
    Series series Guides to Comics, TV, and SF
    In An Incomprehensible Condition, Andrew Hickey examines Grant Morrison's 2005 comic series Seven Soldiers of Victory, and traces the history of the ideas used.From Greek myth to hip-hop, from John Bunyan to Alan Turing, from Arius of Alexandria to Isaac Newton, we see how Frankenstein connects to Robert Johnson, what George Bernard Shaw had to say about Bulleteer, and what G.K. Chesterton thinks ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ed vs. Yummy Fur

    Or, What Happens When A Serial Comic Becomes a Graphic Novel

    by Brian Evenson ...
    Series series Critical Cartoons
    Brian Evenson delves deeply into the pages of Chester Brown's (Louis Riel, Paying for It) seminal comic book Yummy Fur. Brian's comics archaeology excavates the discarded fragments of Brown's masterpiece Ed The Happy Clown, examines the never re-printed adaptions of the Gospels, and meditates on the pleasures of reading serialized pamphlet comic books. The book also features a brand new interview ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Comics and Language

    Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

    by Hannah Miodrag ...
    It has become an axiom in comic studies that “comics is a language, not a genre.” But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the “grammar” and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

    Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

    by Robert Jacobs, Mick Broderick, John Canaday, Tom Engelhardt, Carole Gallagher, Judy Hiramoto, Kenji Ito, Minoru Maeda, Naoko Maeda, Yuki Tanaka, Spencer Weart ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic ... Read more

    $47.99 USD