Search results for “[subject: comics]”

• Author(s): Marc Dipaolo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and governm...

• Author(s): Sidney I. Dobrin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Nonfiction - General Exploring image and imagination in conjunction with natural environments, the animal, and the human, thi...

• Author(s): Dietrich Grunewald • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: JournalismComics sind Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts in den USA entstanden. Geprägt durch die Medien Zeitung, Comic-Book und -Album haben sie die trad...

• Author(s): Francesco-Alessio Ursini | Adnan Mahmutovic | Frank Bramlett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Across generations and genres, comics have imagined d...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: LiteraryIn 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write a monthly something' illustrated by sporting...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Sj Kirchoff | Mike P. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting an...

• Author(s): Robert G. Weiner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of...

• Author(s): Mark Berninger | Jochen Ecke | Gideon Haberkorn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic b...

• Author(s): Valerie Estelle Frankel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon's television and film work, which i...

• Author(s): Chris York | Rafiel York • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn ...

• Author(s): Julia Round • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, f...

• Author(s): Jamie Newbold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels A childhood comic book fan turned comic book retailer, the author soon discovered the prevalence of ...

• Author(s): Terrence R. Wandtke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels For decades, scholars have been making the connection between the design of the superhero stor...

• Author(s): David D. Seelow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & Humanities Imagine a classroom where students put away their smart phones and enthusiasticall...

• Author(s): Kevin Michael Scott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Marvel Comics has an established tradition of addressing relevant real-life issues facing the ...

• Author(s): Joyce Goggin | Dan Hassler-Forest • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the e...

• Author(s): Michael A. Sheyahshe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Native American Studies This work takes an in-depth look at the world of comic books through the eyes of a Native America...

• Author(s): Leonard Rifas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fough...

• Author(s): Chris McCoy • Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Andrews McMeel Publishing • BISAC: Form - Comic Strips & CartoonsA collection of gloriously random and unexpected cartoons from the hugely popular webcomic S...

• Author(s): Carrye Kay Syma | Robert G. Weiner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have...

• Author(s): Lan Dong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and l...

• Author(s): Jason Tondro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Few scholars nursed on the literary canon would dispute that knowledge of Western literature benefits...

• Author(s): Robert G. Weiner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, ...

• Author(s): Terrence R. Wandtke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of essays analyzes the many ways in which comic book and film superheroes have been revised or rew...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General On stage from her childhood, Martha Raye (1916-1994) proudly embraced the role o...

• Author(s): Matt Hawkins • Publisher: Image Comics • Publisher Imprint: Image Comics • BISAC: RomanceDan and Cathy's swinging adventures continue in this SUNSTONE spin-off as their relationship is strained, perhaps irreparably. Love conquers all...

• Author(s): Lou Mougin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Superheroes When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in a string of imitators--Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain Amer...

• Author(s): Joe Sergi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Since the creation of the comic book, cases of legal conflict and confusion have often arisen where conc...

• Author(s): Tim Seeley • Publisher: Vault Comics • Publisher Imprint: Vault Comics • BISAC: Science Fiction - Alien ContactSex Criminals meets the Fantastic Four in MONEY SHOT, a sexy sci-fi space adventure about scientists exploring the exotic...

• Author(s): Michael Walton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Constitutional Horror comics were among the first comic books published--ghastly tales that soon developed an avid young reader...

• Author(s): Tara Prescott | Aaron Drucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Kahan | Stanley Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels This updated and expanded textbook inspires a greater appreciation for literature ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Erwin | Dawn Keetley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror From the beginning, both Robert Kirkman's comics an...

• Author(s): Jeffrey K. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels In the less than eight decades since Superman's debut in 1938, comic book superheroes have beco...

• Author(s): Valerie Estelle Frankel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark ...