Graphic Novels and Comic Books: Secondary Sources

This book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics

Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic book.

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture.

Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, best known for The Spirit, his iconic newspaper comic strip, and A Contract With God, the first significant graphic novel.

This compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji.

Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics.

Many of the creators of the most famous comic books were Jewish. This book tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry as a whole.

Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic. Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief.

The Blacker the Ink is the first book to explore not only the diverse range of black characters in comics, but also the multitude of ways that black artists, writers, and publishers have made a mark on the industry.

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men explores the changing depiction of superheroes from the comic books of the 1930s to the cinematic present.

What Cold War-era superheroes reveal about American society and foreign policy.

Atomic Comics examines how comic books, comic strips, and other cartoon media represented the Atomic Age from the early 1920s to the present.

In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society.

Using theoretical framework to examine the construction of comic book culture, Lopes explains how and why comic books have captured the public's imagination and gained a fanatic cult following.

Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism is both a rigorous study of Miller's artistic influences and innovations and a reflection on how his visionary work on Daredevil impacted generations of comics publishers, creators, and fans.

Equally comfortable considering everything from the representation of racial diversity to the semiotics of Veronica's haircut, Twelve-Cent Archie gives a fresh appreciation for America's most endearing group of teenagers. 

The American comic book was one of the most important entertainment forms of the twentieth century in America.

Written by Sean Howe, former comic book reviewer and editor at Entertainment , Marvel Comics: The Untold Story is a gripping narrative of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered pop cultural entities in America's history.

In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel.

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture.

This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Includes a chapter on the latest developments in digital comics.

This is a survey of the general impact of graphic novels on the style and content of American film.

Graphic novels are now appearing in a great variety of courses: composition, literature, drama, popular culture, travel, art, translation. The thirty-four essays in this volume explore issues that the new art form has posed for teachers at the university level.

This much-needed alternative history of American comic book icons--from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and beyond--delves into where these crime-fighting females fit in popular culture and why, and what their stories say about the role of women in society from their creation to now, and into the future.

Stevens shows that Captain America represents the ultimate American story: permanent enough to survive for nearly seventy years with a history fluid enough to be constantly reinterpreted to meet the needs of an ever-changing culture.

Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture.

Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women.