Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of c
In The Secret Origins of Comics Studies, today’s leading comics scholars turn back a page to reveal the founding figures dedicated to understanding comics art. Edited by comics scholars Matthew J. Smi
Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie cr
Acclaimed illustrator and graphic novelist David Chelsea offers up six strange 24-hour comics in one deluxe hardcover volume! Strictly following rules devised by Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics),
In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics, a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds mo
Scholars and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its potential to enrich our exploration of reading in our currently saturated media landscape. This Element is based on seventeen in-depth interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and what they consider a good or bad reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community and material aspects of reading. From these readers, one begins to understand why comics reading is something that young people do not 'grow out of' but an experience that they 'grow with'.
Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for an
The Power of Comics is the first introductory textbook for comic art studies courses. Offering a broad understanding of the medium and its potential, it provides students with a coherent and comprehe
Long before manga took the American comics market by storm, Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Making Comics) combined the best ideas from manga, alternative comics, and superheroes into Zot!—a fren
Science Comics: Bats: Learning to FlyScience Comics: Cars: Engines That Move YouScience Comics: Cats: Nature and NurtureScience Comics: Coral Reefs: Cities of the OceanScience Comics: Dinosaurs: Fossils and FeathersScience Comics: Dogs: From Predator to ProtectorScience Comics: Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers SoaredScience Comics: Plagues: The Microscopic BattlefieldScience Comics: Polar Bears: Survival on the IceScience Comics: Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and FutureScience Comics: Rockets: Defying GravityScience Comics: Rocks and Minerals: Geology from Caverns to the CosmosScience Comics: Sharks: Nature's Perfect HunterScience Comics: Spiders: Worldwide WebsScience Comics: Skyscrapers: The Heights of EngineeringScience Comics: Solar System: Our Place in SpaceScience Comics: The Brain: The Ultimate Thinking MachineScience Comics: The Digestive System: A Tour Through Your GutsScience Comics: Trees: Kings of the ForestScience Comics: Volcanoes: Fire and LifeScience Comics:
For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression – but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative
For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression – but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative
100 Marvel comics that built a universe.Which comic books have helped define Marvel Comics and make them the pop-culture phenomenon they are today? Find out in Marvel Greatest Comics, a compelling sho
100 Marvel comics that built a universe. Which comic books have helped define Marvel Comics and make them the pop-culture phenomenon they are today? Find out in Marvel Greatest Comics, a compelling
DC Comics has created some of the most twisted and complex villainous characters in the world of comics. The third installment in the popular 100 Greatest Moments of DC Comics series, DC Com
Explore the origin of Batman through DC Comics’ Detective Comics covers in this second volume of the miniature art book series. Hold the comic book history of DC Comics’ Detective Com
Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. B
Explore the origin of DC Comics’ Detective Comics covers in this miniature art book. Hold the comic book history of DC Comics’ Detective Comics in the palm of your hand with DC Comics
Action Comics #1 gave birth to America's greatest Superhero, Superman! Now celebrate 1,000 issues of Action Comics with this collector's item hardcover, Action Comics #1000: The Deluxe Edition. ((Note
Learn how to make comics from one of the most prolific comics artists working today. How Comics Work is a masterclass taught by Britain’s first Comics Laureate, Dave Gibbons. Packed full of rare and u
SpongeBob Comics: Treasure Chest is a deluxe collection of the best previously published SpongeBob Comics stories, specially selected by creator Stephen Hillenburg, and geared toward the first generat
A comics collection from some of the biggest stars in graphic novels, including Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, and Victoria Jamieson! Calling all kidz! Do you like comics?
From the trailblazing Wonder Woman of the 1940s to the edgy, power-driven comics series likeBirds of Prey, DC Comics Covergirls takes a look at the female characters of DC Comics throughout the compan
A new collection from the cartoonist behind the acclaimed New York Times-bestsellingThe Gigantic Beard that Was EvilHere are some comics by Stephen Collins. Or, to be precise, a little over 100 comics
Comics are a pervasive art form and an intrinsic part of the cultural fabric of most countries. And yet, relatively little has been written on the translation of comics. Comics in Translation attempts
Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambi
Marvel Comics will celebrate 75 of years of comics excellence in 2014. DK commemorates this special anniversary with Marvel Comics Cover Art, a beautiful, large-scale book featuring some of the most i
Comics are a pervasive art form and an intrinsic part of the cultural fabric of most countries. And yet, relatively little has been written on the translation of comics. Comics in Translation attempts
This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introduci
Before there were 3-D movies there were 3-D comics! In the mid-fifties comic book great Joe Kubert hit upon the idea of doing comics in 3-D, which resulted in some of the best-selling comics of all ti
Brian Walker’s two comprehensive guides to American comics, The Comics Before 1945 and The Comics Since 1945, are combined here in one beautifully designed omnibus edition, The Comics: The Complete Co
Marvel is proud to bring you a celebration of amazing women in comics with a brand-new anthology created entirely by the most talented and exciting women working in comics today, including Ann Nocent
Sufi Comics are short comic strips that illustrate the eternal spiritual truths in the teachings of Islam. 40 Sufi Comics is a collection of these comics in the form of a book. Alongside each comic ar
Marvel is proud to bring you a celebration of amazing women in comics with a brand-new anthology created entirely by the most talented and exciting women working in comics today, including Ann Nocent
This reader-sized book is a compilation of silly comics about everything Club Penguin, from puffles to igloos to friendship, and more. This collection features the best comics from the virtual world
A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, man
From the trailblazing Wonder Woman of the 1940s to edgy, girl-power-driven comics series like Birds of Prey, DC Comics Covergirls takes a look at the female characters of DC Comics throughout the comp
Manhwa—Korean for comics—is fast becoming the next big craze in Asian comics. Many fans of manga don't realize that their favorite comics, like Priest, Ragnarock, and Island, are actually manhwa, not
Simpsons Comics Unchained is chock full of four comics containing the zany antics of TV's first family –Simpsons fans will continue to go wild. Attention, citizens! Lock your doors and windows! Run f
