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Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger. At the height of its popularity, the strip ran in more than 2,400 newspapers and generated a fan base that continues to run in the millions. This critical analysis of Calvin and Hobbes explores Calvin's... more...
Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures. more...
Comic und Literatur: Konstellationen
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00Until now, scholars in literary and cultural studies have barely touched upon the multiple points of engagement between comics and literature. Drawing on a number of specific examples, the contributors to this volume illustrate the diversity of issues that arise in looking at the relationship between comics and literature. The book includes a consideration... more...
Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. more...
Super-History
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00In the less than eight decades since Superman's debut in 1938, comic book superheroes have become an indispensable part of American society and the nation's dominant mythology. They represent America's hopes, dreams, fears, and needs. As a form of popular literature, superhero narratives have closely mirrored trends and events in the nation. This study... more...
Graphic Women
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 27.99Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her work, while Lynda Barry uses collage and the empty... more...
Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader
Portable Press 2012; US$ 16.95Uncle John's sweet 16th edition proves the Bathroom Readers' Institute is as unstoppable as ever! This ALL-NEW edition of the world's best-selling bathroom trivia series is overflowing with tons of great reading material. As always, the articles are divided by length for your convenience -- from quick hits, to medium-sized reads, to the extended sitting... more...
Sherlock Holmes
Atlantic Books Ltd 2010; US$ 10.19In this new biography, Nick Rennison presents a new account of the life and times of the famous detective. "Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography" blends what we already know of the great sleuth's career with carefully documented social history to answer the questions admirers have long puzzled over. "Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography"... more...
Reading Comics
Da Capo Press 2007; US$ 22.95The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics criticism by the leading critic in the field more...
Professor Jonathan T. Buck's Mysterious Airship Notebook
Ulysses Press 2012; US$ 15.95PART STEP-BY-STEP HOW-TO-DRAW GUIDE, PART THRILLING STEAMPUNK ADVENTURE STORY At the end of the 19th century, a brilliant inventor, Professor Jonathan T. Buck, crafted a beautiful steam-powered airship for an expedition to South America?s Amazon River Basin in search of a magnificent lost city ? hidden from terrestrial explorers for centuries by... more...









