Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines
and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinations work. This …

A comprehensive introduction to the comic arts From the introduction by Paul Levitz" If ever
there was a medium characterized by its unexamined self-expression, it's comics. For …

Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual,
white, and able-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar …

PHYSICIST BRUCE BANNER, caught in the nuclear explosion of his experimental gamma
bomb, is transformed into the rampaging green monster the Hulk. High school student Peter …

The victory of a Christian coalition over Ottoman forces besieging Vienna in 1683 marked
the beginning of the end of the Ottoman presence in Central and Eastern Europe and the …

Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial
comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well …

Superman, Batman, Daredevil, and Wonder Woman are iconic cultural figures that embody
values of order, fairness, justice, and retribution. Comic Book Crime digs deep into these …

Recent years have seen the rise of a new genre in news coverage: comics journalism. It
combines journalistic techniques with the use of comics as a medium. Instead of reporting …

This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and
nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in …

The first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers,
owners, and performers who made him the icon he is today, from the New York Times …