"In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. …
Analyses such seminal works as: Gilbert Hernadez's "Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories"; Justin Green's "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary"; and more. He explores how issues outside of cartooning can affect the final work. He teases out the complications of creating biogr…
Examines long-form comics, focusing on the graphic novel, to argue that comics are a fundamental literary form and studies alternative comics as both a literary genre and a cultural phenomenon.
In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegelman and Franoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally…
"Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreatin…