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Comics and Graphic Novels
April 14, 2024
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales
Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the …
April 13, 2024
The Comic Book as Research Tool
The Comic Book as Research Tool: Creative Visual Research for the Social Sciences (de Gruyter, 2023) contributes to a growing body of work celebrating…
April 12, 2024
The US Graphic Novel
This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics.…
April 10, 2024
Openness of Comics
Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques…
April 9, 2024
Perfect Copies
Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “problem” of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa’s Perfect Copie…
April 8, 2024
Drawing from the Archives
Following Art Spiegelman's declaration that 'the future of comics is in the past, Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic…
April 6, 2024
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented number of comics by and about Muslim people enter the global market. Now, Muslim Comics and Warscape Witness…
March 3, 2024
Anime's Knowledge Cultures
With comics franchises getting turned into multi-billion dollar revenue opportunities and consumer technology companies dominating daily headlines — t…
February 27, 2024
Contemporary Disney Animation
Eve Benhamou's book Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood (Edinburgh UP, 2022) is the first in-depth study of Disney’s latest ani…
January 13, 2024
Comics Journalism in Taiwan: The Reporter File
This episode’s host, Adina Zemanek, invited Sherry Lee, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of the non-profit, independent media organization The R…
December 27, 2023
The Graphic History of Hip Hop
Hip Hop turned 50 this year. It has been five decades since DJ Cool Herc played a party in the Bronx that gave birth to a global cultural revolution. …
December 17, 2023
Silence, Full Stop
Alina Gorban is an illustrator of 22 children's books, a cartoonist, and a teaching artist. In our interview we celebrate her new graphic novel entitl…
December 8, 2023
Comics as Communication
Dr. Paul Fisher Davies' book Comics As Communication: A Functional Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores how comics function to make meanings i…
December 6, 2023
Cartooning China
Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and th…
November 12, 2023
Growing Up Graphic
Dr. Halsall’s Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis (Ohio State UP, 2023) has four primary objectives. One, it explores this visual a…
November 10, 2023
Comics and the Body
Dr. Eszter Szép's book Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (Ohio State UP, 2020) is the first book to examine the roles of the bo…
November 5, 2023
Coastlines, Climate, and Comics: In conversation with Dr. V. Chitra
How can we use comics to present ethnographic research in new and unique ways? In this episode, we talk with Dr. V. Chitra about the fieldwork and com…
November 4, 2023
The Cambridge Companion to Comics
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This …
October 30, 2023
Who Understands Comics?
Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they…
October 29, 2023
Medievalist Comics and the American Century
In Medievalist Comics and the American Century (UP of Mississippi, 2016), Chris Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, setting…