Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first
century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic …

Starting in the late 1960s, mainstream comics experienced a veritable explosion of ethnic
characters. The sheer number of such superheroes represented a real and valuable kind of …

By exploring one case study of a cult TV revival after decades off-air—Twin Peaks: The
Return (Showtime, 2017)—this article defines and then focuses on generational seriality. I …

In an essay published in this journal's first volume, Jonathan Sterne provocatively argued
that there is no music industry. This article uses the American comic book industry to further …

Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and
beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In this …

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the
new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies Across more than fifty original essays …

Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths,
sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman's …

This article explores the relationship between superhero comics and myth. It argues that
traditional approaches to myth see it as a deeply conservative form, and applying it to the …

Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first
character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a …

This article explores the potential for the field of popular geopolitics of close attention to the
form and structure of instrumental film music. Specifically, it analyses the film scores for …