Graphic novels: history & criticism books

Be My Valentine is a wondrous sketchbook to write, sketch, draw and paint on. Blank, white, unlined, large 8 inches...  Read More >>

When brave princes kiss bewitched frogs, these things happen...  Read More >>

Super-heroes, said to represent justice, have saturated popular culture at a time when the American criminal justice...  Read More >>

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This is an oral history of Fantagraphics, the iconoclastic independent comic book publisher who reshaped the medium...  Read More >>

The Man Who Watched Batman Vol. 3 is the ultimate companion book to Batman: The Animated Series. Whether you can...  Read More >>

Ever since STAR WARS hit theaters in 1977, comic books and comic strips have taken the characters beyond the silver...  Read More >>

Comics have anticipated WW2 and chronicled it with their own heroes in a realistic or idealized way. From Dunkirk...  Read More >>

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The ultimate guidebook to Earth, the Nine Realms, and other dimensions from Marvel Comics, as told by Peter Quill,...  Read More >>

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The first study in English of Latin American graphic narrative, this book explores the genre’s Argentine and Brazilian...  Read More >>

¿Quieres conocer mejor a Dacre Stoker? ¿Saber quiénes son AnGélida? ¿Leer lo que pienso de Halestorm, Emilie Autumn,...  Read More >>

This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades...  Read More >>

Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America's leading cartoonists, has created work recognized around the world. Among...  Read More >>

Revamped, redesigned, and fully updated to include the New 52 and Rebirth storylines, this is the definitive and...  Read More >>

From 1983 to 1986, He-Man and his twin sister She-Ra entranced a generation of boys and girls all around the word...  Read More >>

Contrary to the idea that comics have naturally matured into respectability, Arresting Development offers a new...  Read More >>

The X-Men franchise is a sprawling comic-book mythology, to which hundreds of creators have contributed material...  Read More >>

Contrary to the idea that comics have naturally matured into respectability, Arresting Development offers a new...  Read More >>

Why so many American comics fans avidly follow medieval heroes  Read More >>

Documents the history of Archie Comics' super-hero characters known as the ""Mighty Crusaders"" - The Shield, Black...  Read More >>

GEORGE?KHOURY?(author of The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore and Kimota: ?The Miracleman?Companion) presents a...  Read More >>

Using a bold contemporary art style, the comic presents every word of the biblical Book of Ruth, within its historical,...  Read More >>

This edited collection offers a variety of perspectives focusing on representation of women as heroines across printed...  Read More >>