Graphic novels: history & criticism books

2429 books were found.

Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique

Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War...

Author: Michael Goodrum ,  Philip Smith
ISBN: 9781526179005
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Printing Terror argues that horror comics of the Cold War primarily concern white male victimhood and the monstrosity...  Read More >>

The Comics Journal #310

The Comics Journal #310

Author: Gary Groth ,  Kristy Valenti
ISBN: 9781683968931
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Multimedia artist and satirist Gerald Scarfe, best known globally for his Pink Floyd's The Wall and Disney's Hercules...  Read More >>

The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television

The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics,...

Author: Richard A. Hall
ISBN: 9798765130971
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television provides one go-to reference for...  Read More >>

Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism

Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy...

Author: Rafael Carrión-Arias
ISBN: 9781032423142
Format: Hardback
$294.00

It is a multidisciplinary work that brings together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism...  Read More >>

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American...

Author: Daniel Worden
ISBN: 9780814259184
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A new history of US comics in the Anthropocene that excavates the interdependence of comics, petrochemicals, and...  Read More >>

British Comics: A Cultural History

British Comics: A Cultural History

Author: James Chapman
ISBN: 9781789149128
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland

Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar...

Author: Ewa Stańczyk
ISBN: 9781496851505
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the...  Read More >>

From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics

From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of...

Author: Neale Barnholden
ISBN: 9781496851628
Format: Paperback
$51.70

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Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American...

Author: Daniel Worden
ISBN: 9780814215708
Format: Hardback
$263.87

A new history of US comics in the Anthropocene that excavates the interdependence of comics, petrochemicals, and...  Read More >>

Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland

Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar...

Author: Ewa Stańczyk
ISBN: 9781496851499
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the...  Read More >>

From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics

From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of...

Author: Neale Barnholden
ISBN: 9781496851611
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Places the history of four representative comics in the larger contexts of book history, children’s culture, and...  Read More >>

Jujutsu Kaisen: The Official Character Guide

Jujutsu Kaisen: The Official Character Guide

Author: Gege Akutami
ISBN: 9781974743810
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Dive into the world of jujutsu sorcerers and wicked cursed spirits with the ultimate Jujutsu Kaisen handbook!  Read More >>

Windrush Arrival Day - A Photo Book: Volume One

Windrush Arrival Day - A Photo Book: Volume One

Author: Karline Smith
ISBN: 9798329258646
Format: Paperback
$50.93

This book is from a series of British Afro-Caribbean depicting history from the 1940-1980s told in a photo-album...  Read More >>

The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide To Lost Universes #2

The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide To Lost Universes...

Author: Robert M. Overstreet ,  J. C. Vaughn
ISBN: 9781603606110
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The ground-breaking second volume of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide To Lost Universes takes a tour through...  Read More >>

The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers

The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers

Author: Julian Darius
ISBN: 9781940589350
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Since 1984, the Transformers have been an almost ever-present part of American popular culture - in toys, cartoons,...  Read More >>

The Essential Manga Guide: 50 Series Every Manga Fan Should Know

The Essential Manga Guide: 50 Series Every Manga Fan...

Author: Briana Lawrence
ISBN: 9780762481781
Format: Paperback
$45.00

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How to Draw Kawaii Manga Fashion

How to Draw Kawaii Manga Fashion

Author: Misako Rocks!
ISBN: 9780760388716
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Attention kawaii and fashion-loving tweens! Now you can learn to draw your own adorable manga fashions with this...  Read More >>

Bande dessinée et engagement

Bande dessinée et engagement

Author: Fabrice Preyat ,  Jean-Louis Tilleuil
ISBN: 9782807604780
Format: Paperback
$111.26

L'ouvrage interroge les postures d'auteurs de bande dessinée dits « engagés » et fait le point sur une production...  Read More >>

Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism

Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism...

Author: Paul S Hirsch
ISBN: 9780226829463
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the...

Author: Troy D. Smith
ISBN: 9781496851680
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are...  Read More >>

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the...

Author: Troy D. Smith
ISBN: 9781496851673
Format: Hardback
$185.90

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Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction

Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American...

Author: Karolina Krasuska
ISBN: 9781978832770
Format: Hardback
$396.00

How does being Soviet-born inflect one's grasp of Jewishness in North America? Reading across the many English-language...  Read More >>

Plot Twist! Adventure

Plot Twist! Adventure

Author: Marielle Bechi ,  Anisthasia Boyd
ISBN: 9798989554829
Format: Paperback
$26.37

"Create Your Own Anime Comic Book: Plot Twist Edition! Unleash Your Inner Mangaka! Ever dreamed of adding your...  Read More >>

Profondo Noir

Profondo Noir

Author: Rossana La Bella
ISBN: 9791222745244
Format: Paperback
$90.66

Ispirato ai film degli anni 40 e spunto da un racconto italiano degli anni 60, questa graphic novel raccoglie tutti...  Read More >>

Harmony's Echo

Harmony's Echo

Author: Kelly Adams
ISBN: 9798224017515
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The embodiment of peace has mysteriously vanished, leaving the balance of the world hanging on the edge of chaos....  Read More >>

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