Robert Williams

Edited by Joseph R. Givens & Darius A. Spieth
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in Robert Williams: Conversations attest to his ...

Jack Kent

By Paul V. Allen
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Jack Kent (1920–1985) had two distinct and successful careers: newspaper cartoonist and author of children’s books. For each of these he drew upon different aspects of his personality and life experiences. Fro ...

Artful Breakdowns

Edited by Georgiana Banita & Lee Konstantinou
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

WINNER OF THE 2025 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZE

Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, ...

Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos

By Michelle Ann Abate
Categories: Comics Studies

HONORABLE MENTION RECIPIENT FOR THE 2024 CHARLES HATFIELD BOOK PRIZE FROM THE COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new ...

Howard Cruse

By Janine Utell
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Biographix

Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher’s kid from Alabama who became “the godfather of queer comics,” Cruse (1944–2019) was a groundbreaking undergr ...

Into the Jungle!

By Jimmy Kugler
Edited by Michael Kugler
Categories: Literature
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific ...

Asian Political Cartoons

By John A. Lent
Categories: Comics Studies

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
2024 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political ...

Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media

Edited by John Stephens & Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Hélène Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten-Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann P ...

Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale

Edited by Andrew J. Rausch & Mark Slade
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale ...

After Midnight

Edited by Drew Morton
Foreword by Henry Jenkins
Afterword by Suzanne Scott
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E. Felschow, Lindsay Hallam, Rusty Hatchell, Dru Jeffries, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff, Curtis Marez, James Denis McGlynn, ...