Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Provides useful information about comic books and graphic novels as topics of academic research at the University of Michigan.
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Online Journals
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The Comics Grid"The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is a researcher-led, open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal aims to advance the media-specific study of graphic narrative from multidisciplinary perspectives. We aim to promote comics scholarship within academia and the general public with contributions that present specialised knowledge in accessible forms. As a publishing platform we encourage digital research, data sharing, public engagement and collaboration."
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The Comics JournalThe Comics Journal has been a source for comics news and opinion since 1977. It contains in-depth interviews with mainstream. classic, underground, and small-press creators, and covers issues relevant to comics scholars and fans. (Note: not a scholarly journal.)
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Image & Narrative : online magazine of the visual narrative"A peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology and word and image studies in the broadest sense of the term. It does not focus on a narrowly defined corpus or theoretical framework, but questions the mutual shaping of literary and visual cultures. Beside tackling theoretical issues, it is a platform for reviews of real life examples."
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ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies"A peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media."
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International Journal of Comic Art"International and multidisciplinary in scope, IJOCA aims to publish scholarly and readable research on any aspect of comic art, defined as animation, comic books, newspaper and magazine strips, caricature, gag and political cartoons, humorous art, and humor or cartoon magazines."
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics"A peer reviewed journal covering all aspects of the graphic novel, comic strip and comic book, with the emphasis on comics in their cultural, institutional and creative contexts. Its scope is international, covering not only English language comics but also worldwide comic culture."
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Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts"Mechademia’s subject area extends from manga and anime to game design, fashion, graphics, packaging, and toy industries, as well as a broad range of fan practices related to popular culture in Japan. We are interested in how the academic and fan communities can provide new possibilities for critical thinking and popular writing."
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Sequart"Analytic articles, whether historical or literary, scholarly or popular."
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Studies in Comics"The journal... promote[s] the close analysis of the comics page/text using a variety of methodologies. Its specific goal, however, is to expand the relationship between comics and theory and to articulate a 'theory of comics.' The journal also includes reviews of new comics, criticism, and exhibitions, and a dedicated online space for cutting-edge and emergent creative work."
Books - General
The following are just some of the books in the AAEL collection that take an academic approach to the study of comics. For more, search the library catalog for the subjects Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism. and Graphic novels -- History and criticism.
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Anatomy of Comics by Damien MacDonald
Call Number: PN 6710 .M23 2022ISBN: 9782080281876Publication Date: 2022 -
The Art of Comics by Aaron Meskin; Roy T. Cook
Call Number: PN 6710 .A86 2012ISBN: 9781444334647Publication Date: 2012 -
Autobiographical Comics by Elisabeth El Refaie
Call Number: PN 6714 .E4 2012ISBN: 9781617036132Publication Date: 2012Also online: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781621036180/ -
Autobiographical Comics by Andrew J. Kunka
Call Number: PN 6714 .K86 2018ISBN: 1474227856Publication Date: 2017 -
Best American Comics Criticism by Ben Schwartz; Daniel Schwartz (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6725 .B47 2010ISBN: 9781606991480Publication Date: 2010 -
Black Comics: politics of race and representation by Sheena C. Howard (Editor); Ronald L. Jackson II (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6725 .B56 2013ISBN: 9781441135285Publication Date: 2013-03-14 -
Breaking the Frames by Marc Singer
Call Number: PN 6714 .S575 2018ISBN: 9781477317105Publication Date: 2019 -
Challenging Genres by P. L. Thomas
Call Number: PN 6710 .T46 2010ISBN: 9789460913594Publication Date: 2010 -
Children's and Young Adult Comics by Gwen Athene Tarbox
Call Number: PN 6714 .T37 2020ISBN: 9781350009196Publication Date: 2020 -
Comics and Graphic Novels by Julia Round; Rikke Platz Cortsen; Maaheen Ahmed
Call Number: PN 6710 .R597 2023ISBN: 9781350336094Publication Date: 2022 -
Comics and the City by Jörn Ahrens (Editor); Arno Meteling
Call Number: PN 6714 .C648 2010ISBN: 9780826440198Publication Date: 2010Also online at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/umich/Doc?id=10427347 -
Comics As Communication: A Functional Approach by Paul Fisher Davies
Call Number: PN 6714 .D33 2019ISBN: 9783030297213Publication Date: 2019Also online: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-29722-0. -
Critical Approaches to Comics by Randy Duncan (Editor); Matthew J. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6710 .C75 2012 (Shapiro)ISBN: 9780415885546Publication Date: 2011 -
Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative by Jake Jakaitis (Editor); James F. Wurtz (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6710 .C76 2012ISBN: 9780786466634Publication Date: 2012 -
Documenting Trauma in Comics by Dominic Davies (Editor); Candida Rifkind (Editor)
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783030379971Publication Date: 2020 -
Early Writings on Visual Language
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Neil Cohn
Call Number: PN 6710 .C54 2003Publication Date: 2003 -
Empirical Approaches to Comics Research by Alexander Dunst (Editor); Jochen Laubrock (Editor); Janina Wildfeuer (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6714 .E48 2018ISBN: 9781138737440Publication Date: 2018 -
The Graphic Lives of Fathers by Mihaela Precup
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783030362171Publication Date: 2020 -
Graphic Women by Hillary L. Chute
Call Number: PN 6714 .C49 2010ISBN: 9780231150637Publication Date: 2010 -
Graven Images : Religion in Comics Books and Graphic Novels by A. David Lewis (Editor); Christine Hoff Kraemer
Call Number: PN 6712 .G73 2010ISBN: 9780826430267Publication Date: 2010 -
Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives by Sebastian Domsch et al. (Editors)
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783110446616Publication Date: 2021 -
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: generation, trauma, and memory by Victoria Aarons
Call Number: PN 6714 .A27 2020ISBN: 9781978802568Publication Date: 2019 -
Immigrants and Comics: graphic spaces of remembrance, transaction, and mimesis by Nhora Lucìa Serrano (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6714 .I46 2021ISBN: 9781138186156Publication Date: 2021 -
Information Comics : knowledge transfer in a popular format by Heike Elisabeth Jüngst
Call Number: PN 6714 .J86 2010ISBN: 9783631599587Publication Date: 2010 -
Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives : a critical guide by Matt Reingold
Call Number: PN 6714 .R44 2023ISBN: 9781350301580Publication Date: 2022 -
Keywords for Comic Studies by Ramzi Fawaz et al. (editors)
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781479862702Publication Date: 2021 -
Litcomix : literary theory and the graphic novel by Adam Geczy; Jonathan McBurnie
Call Number: PN 6710 .G33 2023ISBN: 9781978828650Publication Date: 2023 -
Mise-En-scéne, Acting, and Space in Comics by Geraint D'Arcy
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783030511128Publication Date: 2020 -
More Critical Approaches to Comics by Matthew J. Smith (Editor); Matthew Brown (Editor); Randy Duncan (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6714 .M67 2020ISBN: 9781138359536Publication Date: 2019 -
Multicultural Comics by Frederick Luis Aldama (Editor); Derek Parker Royal (Foreword by)
Call Number: PN 6714 .M85 2010ISBN: 9780292722811Publication Date: 2010 -
Openness of Comics by Maaheen Ahmed
Call Number: PN 6710 .A36 O64 2016ISBN: 9781496805935Publication Date: 2016 -
The Origins of Comics: from William Hogarth to Winsor McCay by Thierry Smolderen
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781617031496Publication Date: 2014 -
Perspectives on Digital Comics by Jeffrey Sj Kirchoff (Editor); Mike P. Cook (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6714 .P47 2019ISBN: 9781476671888Publication Date: 2019 -
The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels: Considering the Role of Kitsch by Laurike in 't Veld
Call Number: PN 6714 .I577 2019ISBN: 9783030036256Publication Date: 2019 -
The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature by Joyce Goggin (Editor); Dan Hassler-Forest (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6714 .R57 2010ISBN: 9780786442942Publication Date: 2010 -
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives by Shane Denson (Editor); Christina Meyer (Editor); Daniel Stein (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6714 .T736 2013ISBN: 9781441185754Publication Date: 2013
Books - Regional
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American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber
Call Number: PN 6725 .D197 2022ISBN: 9780393635607Publication Date: 2022 -
Asian Comics by John A. Lent
Call Number: PN 6790 .A78 L46 2015ISBN: 9781628461589Publication Date: 2015 -
La bande dessinée entre la presse et le livre: Fragments d’une histoire
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Benoît Peeters
Call Number: PN 6745 .P44 2019ISBN: 9782717728330Publication Date: 2019 -
The British Comic Invasion by Jochen Ecke
Call Number: PN 6735 .E25 2019ISBN: 9781476674155Publication Date: 2018 -
British Comics by James Chapman
Call Number: PN 6735 .C48 2011ISBN: 9781861898555Publication Date: 2011 -
The British Superhero by Chris Murray
Call Number: PN 6735 .M87 2017ISBN: 1496807375Publication Date: 2017 -
The Colonial Heritage of French Comics by Mark McKinney
Call Number: PN 6745 .M4 2011ISBN: 9781846316425Publication Date: 2011 -
Comics and nation : power, pop culture, and political transformation in Poland by Ewa Stańczyk
Call Number: PN 6790 .P6 S73 2022ISBN: 9780814258385Publication Date: 2022 -
Comics and the Origins of Manga by Eike Exner
Call Number: PN 6790 .J3 E96 2022ISBN: 9781978827226Publication Date: 2021Also available online -
Comics and the U. S. South by Brannon Costello (Editor); Qiana J. Whitted (Editor)
Call Number: Online BookISBN: 9781617030192Publication Date: 2012 -
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America by James Scorer (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6790 .L29 C663 2020ISBN: 9781787357556Publication Date: 2020 -
Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture by Jacob Høigilt
Call Number: PN 6790 .M5 H65 C66 2019ISBN: 9781784539856Publication Date: 2019 -
Comics in French by Laurence Grove
Call Number: PN 6745 .G76 2010ISBN: 9781845455880Publication Date: 2010Also available online. -
Desegregating Comics: debating Blackness in the golden age of American comics by Qiana Whitted (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6725 .D47 2023ISBN: 9781978825017Publication Date: 2023Also available online -
Drawing France by Joel E. Vessels
Call Number: PN 6710 .V47 2010ISBN: 9781604734447Publication Date: 2010Also available online -
Drawn and Dangerous : Italian comics of the 1970s and 1980s by Simone Castaldi
Call Number: PN 6765 .C37 2010ISBN: 9781604737493Publication Date: 2010 -
From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture by Chad A. Barbour
Call Number: ProQuest EbookISBN: 9781496806840Publication Date: 2016 -
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books by Michael Barrier
Call Number: PN 6725 .B37225 2015 (Shapiro)ISBN: 9780520960022Publication Date: 2014Also Available online -
Gender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels by Matt Reingold
Call Number: onlineISBN: 1003150438Publication Date: 2021 -
History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels by Mark McKinney (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6790 .E9 H57 2008ISBN: 9781604730043Publication Date: 2008Also available online -
India's Immortal Comic Books by Karline McLain
Call Number: PN 6790 .I4 M56 2009ISBN: 9780253220523Publication Date: 2009 -
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: studies in genre by James J. Donahue
Call Number: PN 6714 .D65 2024ISBN: 9781496850492Publication Date: 2024 -
Manga Vision by Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou (Editor); Cathy Sell (Editor); Queenie Chan (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN 6790 .J3 M3658 2016ISBN: 9781925377064Publication Date: 2016 -
Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America by Edward King & Joanna Page
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781911576457Publication Date: 2018 -
Reading Japan Cool by John E. Ingulsrud; Kate Allen
Call Number: PN 6790 .J3 I54 2009ISBN: 9780739127537Publication Date: 2009-03-16 -
Redrawing French Empire in Comics by Mark McKinney
Call Number: PN 6745 .M39 2013ISBN: 9780814212202Publication Date: 2013Also available online -
Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art by Collin McKinney (Editor); David F. Richter (Editor)
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783030568191Publication Date: 2020 -
UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey by Nicola Streeten
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783030362997Publication Date: 2020 -
Unpopular Culture : Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s by Bart Beaty
Call Number: PN 6710 .B42 2007ISBN: 9780802094124Publication Date: 2007-02-03 -
Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond by Fusami Ogi (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6714 .W66 2019ISBN: 9783319972282Publication Date: 2019
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