International Comic Arts Forum Comics Scholarship Bibliography
January 2020 to December 2020

What follows is a list of English-language comics scholarship published in 2020. Comics studies is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field, and this resource is intended to highlight the recent work in comics studies produced by scholars working in diverse departments, fields, and institutions. The bibliography is organized in two sections: one for monographs and edited collections, and another for peer-reviewed journal articles and essays from scholarly anthologies not primarily devoted to comics.

We compiled these citations by examining several comics-focused academic book publishers and journals and by issuing a call through various online platforms for comics scholars to submit citations. Because we relied heavily on self-reporting it is not comprehensive. Rather, it provides an overview of current work in the field and a place for scholars to search for connections, parallels, and affinities to their own work. For scholars looking to expand their inquiries with a searchable database focused on comics, the Bonn Online Bibliography of Comics Research is an eminently useful resource, and scholars may wish to consult the MLA International Bibliography, Art Full Text, and other such more general databases.
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If your work was left out of this edition of the list, please submit a citation to [email protected] in the most recent MLA format and we will include it in the next update.

Monographs and Edited Collections

Ahmed, Maaheen, editor. Strong Bonds: Child-animal Relationships in Comics. Presses Universitaires de Liége, 2020.

• Child-animal Relationships in Comics: A First Mapping -- Maaheen Ahmed
• The Maternal Arf!: Raising Canines in the Roaring Twenties in Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie -- Peter W.Y. Lee
• Towards and Unexpected Equivalence: Animal, Children and Adults in the Popular Flemish Strip Jommeke -- Gert Meesters and Pascal Lefévre
• Hergé’s Animal Sidekicks: The Adventures of Snowy and Jocko -- Jennifer Marchant
• (Super) Horsing Around: The Significance of Comet in Supergirl -- Olivia Hicks
• A Girl and her Dinosaur: The Queerness of Childhood in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur -- Nicole Eschen Solis
• “Winner Take All!”: Children, Animals, and Mourning in Kirby’s Kamandi -- José Alaniz
• “Once upon a time, there was a very bad rat…”: Constructions of Childhood, Young People, Vermin and Comics -- Mel Gibson
• The Panther, the Girl, and the Wardrobe: Borderlessness and Domestic Terror in Panther -- Shaimin Kwa
• Animal-child Dyad and Neurodivergence in Peanuts -- Michael Chaney and Sara Biggs Chaney
• The Most Loyal of Friends, the Most Lethal of Enemies: Child-animal Relationships in Corriere dei Picolli during the First World War -- Fabiana Loparco
• A Poetics of Anti-authorianism: Child-animal Relationships in Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes -- Emmanuelle Rougé
• Child-animal Interactions in Yakari’s Early Adventures: A Zoonarratological Reading -- Benoît Glaude
• Graphic Cross-pollinations and Shapeshifting Fables in Matthew Forsythe’s Jinchalo -- Laura A. Pearson
• Boule & Bill: Unwrapped -- Philippe Capart
  
  

Alber, Jan, and Brian Richardson, editors. Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges. Ohio State University Press, 2020.

• Empathy the Long Way ’Round: Unnatural Autographic Narration -- Christopher D. Kilgore
• (Un)Natural Temporalities in Graphic Narratives -- Raphaël Baroni
  
  

Aldama, Frederick Luis, editor. Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

• Nourishing Minds and Bodies with Indigenous Comics: A Foreword – Lee Francis IV
• Graphic Indigeneity: Terra America and Terra Australasia – Frederick Luis Aldama
• “We the North”: Interrogating Indigenous Appropriation as Canadian Identity in Mainstream American Comics – Brenna Clarke Gray
• Jack Jackson, Native Representation, and Underground Comix – Chad A. Barbour
• “Goin’ Native!”: Depictions of the First Peoples from “Down Under” – Jack Ford and Philip Cass
• Representations of Indigenous Australians in Marvel Comics – Dennin Ellis
• The Wisdom of the Phantom: The Secret Life of Australia’s Indigenous Superhero – Kevin Patrick
• Outsmarting the Lords of Death: An Amerindian Cognitive Script in Comics – Arij Ouweneel
• Memory in Pieces: Chola Power’s Origin Story and the Quest for Memory in Peru – Javier García Liendo
• Visualizing an Alternative Mesoamerican Archive: Daniel Parada’s Comic Series Zotz in Historical Perspective – Jessica Rutherford
• Critical Impulses in Daniel Parada’s Zotz: A Case Study in Indigenous Comics – Jorge Santos
• The Battle for Recollection: Maya Historietas as Art for Remembering War – Brian Montes
• Turey El Taíno and La Borinqueña: Puerto Rican Nationalist and Ethnic Resistance in Puerto Rican Comics Dealing with Taíno Cultural Heritage – Enrique García
• Securing Stones in the Sky: Word-Drawn Recreations of Oral Trickster Tales – Jordan Clapper
• Super Indians and the Indigenous Comics Renaissance – James J. Donahue
• Seeing Histories, Building Futurities: Multimodal Decolonization and Conciliation in Indigenous Comics from Canada – Mike Borkent
• Deep Time and Vast Place: Visualizing Land/Water Relations across Time and Space in Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection – Jeremy M. Carnes
• Deer Woman Re-Generations: Re-Activating First Beings and Re-Arming Sisterhoods of Survivance in Deer Woman: An Anthology – Joshua T. Anderson
• Indigeneity, Intermediality, and the Haunted Present of Will I See? – Candida Rifkind and Jessica Fontaine
• Afterlives: A Coda – Susan Bernardin
  
  

Aldama, Frederick Luis, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies. Oxford University Press, 2020. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190917944.001.0001

• Our World Republic of Comics: An Introduction – Frederick Luis Aldama
• What Kind of Studies Is Comics Studies? – Benjamin Woo
• Why There Is No “Language of Comics” – Frank Bramlett
• In Box: Rethinking Text in the Digital Age – Shiamin Kwa
• What Else Is a Comic? Between Bayeux and Beano – Evan Thomas
• Reading Spaces: The Politics of Page Layout – Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
• Comics as Art – David M. Ball
• The Cartoon on the Comics Page: A Phenomenology – Christopher Pizzino
• All By Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of Genre – Michelle Ann Abate
• Drawing, Redrawing, and Undrawing – Benoît Crucifix
• Bakhtinian Laughter and Recent Political Editorial Cartoons – Michael A. Chaney and Sara B. Chaney
• Columbia and the Editorial Cartoon – Nhora Lucía Serrano
• Efficacy of Social Commentary through Cartooning – Ally Shwed
• Radical Graphics: Australian Second-Phase Comics – Kevin Patrick
• Self-Regulation and Self-Censorship: Comics Creators in Czechoslovakia and Communist Easter Bloc – Pavel Kořínek
• This Is Who I Am: Hybridity and Materiality in Comics Memoir – John Logan Schell
• Auto/biographics and Graphic Histories Made for the Classroom: Logicomix and Abina and the Important Men – Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
• Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints – Lan Dong
• Irony, Ethics, and Lyric Narrative in Miriam Engelberg’s Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person – James Phelan
• Animals in Graphic Narrative – José Alaniz
• The Diversionary Art of Zeina Abirached in Le Piano Oriental – Mark McKinney
• Disco, Derby, and Drag: The Queer Politics of Marvel’s Dazzler – Nicholas E. Miller
• The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender, and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics – Jeffrey A. Brown
• Hammer in Hand: Feminist Community Building in Jason Aaron’s Thor – Susan Kirtley
• When Feminism Went to Market: Issues in Feminist Anthology Comics of the 1980s and ‘90s – Rachel R. Miller
• Children in Comics: Between Education and Entertainment, Conformity and Agency – Maaheen Ahmed
• I’m Not a kid. I’m a shark!: Identity Fluidity in Noelle Stevenson’s Young-Adult Graphic Novels – James J. Donahue
• Forgetting at the Intersection of Comics and the Multimodal Novel: James Sie’s Still Life Las Vegas – Torsa Ghosal
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: The Socially Engaged Graphic Novel as a Platform for Intersectional Feminism – Dan Hassler-Forest
• Paper or Plastic? Mapping the Transmedial Intersections of Comics and Action Figures – Daniel F. Yezbick and Jonathan Alexandratos
• Transformative Architectures in Postcolonial Hong Kong Comics – Kin Wai Chu
• Adaptation and Racial Representation in Dell/Gold Key TV Tie-ins – Andrew J. Kunka
• Candy and Drugs for Dinner: Rat Queens, Genre, and Our Aesthetic Categories – Sean Guynes
• Non-Compliants, Brimpers, and She-Romps: Bitch Planet, Sex Criminals, and Their Publics – Henry Jenkins
• Literary Adaptations in Comics and Graphic Novels – Jan Baetens
• Comics Studies in America: The Making of a Field of Scholarship? – Ian Gordon
• Next Issue: Anticipation and Promise in Comics Studies – Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith
• Comics Studies as Interdiscipline – Dale Jacobs
• Comics Studies as Practitioner-Scholar – Damian Duffy
  
  

Aldama, Frederick Luis, editor. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, Routledge, 2020.

• Gender and Sexuality in Comics: The Told, Untold Stories -- Frederick Luis Aldama
• Translating Masculinity: The Significance of the Frontier in American Superheroes -- Patrick L. Hamilton
• Black Boys and Black Girls in Comics: An Affective and Historical Mapping of Intertwined Stereotypes -- Maaheen Ahmed
• Pocket-Sized Pornography: Representations of Sexual Violence and Masculinity in Tijuana Bibles -- Erin Barry
• The Comic-Strip in Advertising: Persuasion, Gender, Sexuality -- Constance de Silva
• Real Men Choose Vasectomy: Questioning and Redefining Mexican National Masculinity in Los Supermachos, from Rius to Anonymous Authors -- Annick Pellegrin
• Marriage, Domesticity and Superheroes (For Better or Worse) -- Jeffrey A. Brown
• "Is that a monster between your legs or are ya just happy to see me?": Sex, Subjectivity, and the Superbody in the Marvel Swimsuit Special -- Anna F. Peppard
• Life Out Loud in the Closet: The Grotesque as Latinx Imagination in Cristy C. Road’s Spit and Passion -- Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado
• Graphic (Narrative) Presentations of Violence Against Indigenous Women: Responses to the MMIW Crisis in North America -- James J. Donahue
• From "Accidental" Autobiography to Comics Activism: Tracing the Development of an Andalusian-Chinese Feminism in the Work of Comics Artist Quan Zhou -- Jennifer Nagtegaal
• Plea Deal Compounds: Black Women’s Anger in "the System" of Bitch Planet -- Katlin Marisol Sweeney
• Panels of Innocence and Experience: Reading Sexual Subjectivity Through Horror Comics -- Sara Austin
• Teenage Biology 101: Serializing a Queer Girlhood in Ariel Schrag's Potential -- Rachel R. Miller
• Genre, Gender, Sexual, Textual and Visual, and Real Representations in Bande Dessinée -- C(h)ris Reyns-Chikuma
• A Comics Écriture Féminine: Anke Feuchtenberger’s Feminist Graphic Expression -- Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam
• "I’m Trapped In Here!" Gender Performativity and Affect in Emma Ríos's I.D. -- Mikel Bermello Isusi
• Empirical Looking: Situating the Multiple Elements of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout as Vehicles for Articulating a Place for Women in Science -- Lisa DeTora
• From Anodyne Animals to Filthy Beasts: Defying and Defiling Safety, Sanctity, and Sexual Suppression in Underground Animal Comics -- Daniel F. Yezbick
• Wonder Woman’s Complicated Relationship with Feminism -- George Thomas
• "Part of Something Bigger": Ms./Captain Marvel -- Carolyn Cocca
• Higher, Further, Faster Baby! The Feminist Evolution of Carol Danvers from Comics to Film -- Sam Langsdale
• Female Fans, Female Creators, and Female Superheroes: The Semiotics of Changing Gender Dynamics -- Angela Ndalianis
• Public-Facing Feminisms: Subverting the Lettercol in Bitch Planet -- Brenna Clarke Gray
• "I’d Like Everything That’s Bad For Me!": Tank Girl’s Cracks in Patriarchal Pop Culture -- Susan Kerns
• Falling In or Stepping Out: Little Red Formation as Agentic Gender Construction in Lumberjanes -- Karly Marie Grice
• "A Revelation Not of the Flesh, but of the Mind": Performing Queer Textuality in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home -- Maite Urcaregui
• BLOOD, or: Gender and Nation in the Contemporary Polish Comic -- Kalina Kupczynska
• My Grandmother Collects Memories: Gender and Remembrance in Hispanic Graphic Narratives -- Radmila (Lale) Stefkova
• Feminist Riots and Gay Giants: The Mayo Feminista and Cultural Context of Contemporary Queer Chilean Comics -- Sam Cannon
• Questioning Obscenity: The Place of "Pussy" in Manga and the World -- Lindsey Stirek
• See Him, See Her, See Xir: LGBTQ Visibility in Shōnen Manga at the Turn of the Century -- Zachary Michael Lewis Dean
• An Age of Sparkle and Drama: Exploring Gender Identities and Cultural Narratives in 1970s Shōjo Manga -- Lorna Piatti-Farnell
• Representing the Extreme End-point of Sexual Violence: ethical strategies in Phoebe Gloeckner’s La Tristeza -- Rebecca Scherr
• The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris -- Shiamin Kwa
• Fat Bats, Postpunks, and Ice Witches: Afrogoth and the Undead Music of Militia Vox and the Comix of Calyn Pickens Rich -- Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
• Catherine Meurisse and the Gender of Art -- Margaret C. Flinn
• My Life With Toys: An Academic Esai into the Queer Multipurposing of Toys as Interrupted by the Author’s Life -- Jonathan Alexandratos
• "Bobby…You’re Gay": Marvel’s Iceman, Performativity, Continuity, and Queer Visibility -- Bryan Bove
  
  

Aman, Robert. The Phantom Comics and the New Left: A Socialist Superhero. Palgrave, 2020.
Baetens, Jan. Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters. Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Baldanzi, Jessica, and Hussein Rashid, editors. Ms. Marvel’s America: No Normal. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496827029.001.0001

• Introduction – Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid
• Mentoring Ms. Marvel: Marvel’s Kamala Khan and the Reconstitution of Carol Danvers – J. Richard Stevens
• Placing Ms. Marvel and Dust: Marvel Comics, the New York Metro Area, and the “Muslim Problem” – Martin Lund
• Ms. Marvel Is an Immigrant – Hussein Rashid
• “The Only Nerdy Pakistani-American-Slash-Inhuman in the Entire Universe”: Postracialism and Politics in the New Ms. Marvel – Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky
• “I Would Rather Be a Cyborg”: Both/And Technoculture and the New Ms. Marvel – Jessica Baldanzi
• Hope and the Sa’a of Ms. Marvel – A. David Lewis
• The Transformational Resistance of Ms. Marvel in America – Peter E. Carlson and Antero Garcia
• Classroom Heroes: Ms. Marvel and Feminist, Antiracist Pedagogy – Winona Landis
• More than a Mask, Burkini, and Tights: Fighting Misrepresentations through Ms. Marvel’s Costumes – Kristin M. Peterson
• “Wow, Many Heroes, Much Super, Such Girl”: Kamala Khan and Female Comics Fandom – Aaron Kashtan
• Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, and Marvel NOW!: Challenging the Traditional White Male Fan – Nicholaus Pumphrey
• Madina on the Light Rail (That Girl Is Me) – José Alaniz
• Interview with G. Willow Wilson – Shabana Mir
  
  

Ballestro, John, editor. The Library's Guide to Graphic Novels. ALA editions, 2020.
· Introduction: The Light-- John Ballestro
· Between the Panels: A Cultural History of Comic Books and Graphic Novels-- Joshua Everett
· Graphic Novel Companies, Reboots, and Numbering-- John Ballestro
· Creating and Developing a Graphic Literature Collection in an Academic Library-- Andrea Kingston
· Nonfiction Graphic Novels-- Carli Spina
· Fiction Graphic Novels-- Kayla Kuni
· International Comic Books and Graphic Novels-- Lucia Cedeira Serantes, Emily Drew, and Amie Wright
· Building a Japanese Manga Collection for Nontraditional Patrons in an Academic Library-- Michael P. Williams and Molly Des Jardin
· Graphic Medicine in Your Library: Ideas and Strategies for Collecting Comics about Health Care-- Alice Jaggers, Matthew Noe, and Ariel Pomputius
· The Nuts and Bolts of Comics Cataloging-- Allison Bailund, Hallie Clawson, and Staci Crouch
· Teaching and Programming with Graphic Novels in Academic Libraries-- Jacob Gordon and Sara C. Kern
Berkowitz, Drew Emanuel. Framing School Violence and Bullying in Young Adult Manga: Fictional Perspectives on a Pedagogical Problem. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58121-3
 
Bevin, Phillip. Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity. Routledge, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351254304
 
Boerman-Cornell, William, and Jung Kim. Using Graphic Novels in the English Language Arts Classroom. Bloomsbury, 2020.
 
Brown, Jeffrey A. Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus. Routledge, 2019.
 
Cesar, Miguel. Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50880-7
 
Clanton, Dan W. Jr., and Terry R. Clark. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 2020. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.001.0001

• "The Biblical Theme of Covenant and American Popular Culture from Colonial Times to Comic Books" -- Terry R. Clark
• "Non-Biblical Comics Engage the Bible" -- Elizabeth Rae Coody
• "The Book of Jonah in Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Bible" -- Scott S. Elliott
• "How American Newspaper Comic Strips Portray God, Angels, and Humans" -- Leonard Greenspoon

 
Cocca, Carolyn. Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003019329
 
Cohn, Neil. Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension. Bloomsbury, 2020.
 
Cole, Jean Lee. How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496826527.001.0001
 
Daiya, Kavita. Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429347061

• Introduction: South Asia in Graphic Narratives -- Kavita Daiya
• The Fear of Iconoclasm: Genre and Medium Transformations from Comics to Graphic Novels in Amar Chitra Katha, Bhimayana, and Munnu -- Nandini Chandra 
• Mapping Postcolonial Masculinity in Sarnath Banerjee’s The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers -- Lopamudra Basu
• Endangered (and Endangering) Species: Exploring the Animacy Hierarchy in Malik Sajad’s Munnu -- Amit Rahul Baishya
• Appupen’s Posthuman Gothic: The Snake and the Lotus -- Pramod K. Nayar
• Graphic Delhi: Narrating the Indian Emergency, 1975–1977 in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm -- Preeti Singh
• The Art of Postcolonial Resistance and Multispecies Storytelling in Malik Sajad’s Graphic Novel Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir -- Sreyoshi Sarkar
• Slow Violence and Water Racism in Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri -- Anuja Madan
• Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri as Text/Image Activism and Cli-Fi -- Sukanya Gupta
• Nationalism and the Intangible Effects of Violence in Malik Sajad’s Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir -- Andrew Hock Soon Ng
• Indian Graphic Novels: Visual Intertextualities, Mixed Media and the "Glocal" Reader -- Ira Sarma
• Aesthetics, Gender, and Canon in Anti-Caste Graphic Narratives, A Gardener in the Wasteland and Bhimayana -- Ruma Sinha
• The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Priya’s Shakti (2012) -- Nidhi Shrivastava
• The Urban Experience of Displacement: Re-Viewing Dhaka through Street Art and Graphic Narrative -- Mahruba T. Mowtushi
• I Am the Maker of My Image: Marvel’s No Normal and the Comic Book Muslim Woman -- Umme Al-wazedi

 
D’arcy, Geraint. Mise en scene, Acting, and Space in Comics. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51113-5
 
Darowski, Joseph J. The Ages of the Black Panther: Essays on the King of Wakanda in Comic Books. McFarland, 2020.

• The “Secret Origin” of the Black Panther: Literary and Historical Sources of Inspiration -- Liam T. Webb
• Breaking (Some) Ground While Dodging Politics: How Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Started a Legend -- Cathy Leogrande
• A Tale of Two Panthers: T’Challa and the Black Panther Party for ­Self-Defense -- Charles W. Henebry
• Wakanda Forever! (Except for That One Time…): The Black Panther Party, Apartheid and the Brief Identity Crisis of the Black LEOPARD?!? -- Christopher Maverick
• Wakanda Speaks: Animals and Animacy in “Panther’s Rage” -- José Alaniz
• Fighting the Long War Against the Klan: The Black Panther as a Symbol of ­Self-Defense and Social Justice -- Burton P. Buchanan, Ivon Alcime and Carlos D. Morrison
• The Shadow of Apartheid: Analyzing Peter Gillis’ Run in the 1980s -- Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
• The King of Wakanda and the Emperor of the Useless White Boys: Race and Gender in Christopher Priest’s Black Panther -- John Darowski
• An Initiative for a More Fantastic Union: Prowling Around the PATRIOT Act -- Peter W.Y. Lee
• Secret Invasions, Lost Technology and 21st Century Learning Skills: How Black Panther Saved Wakanda Using the “Four C’s” -- Daniel J. Bergman
• Gender in Wakanda: Exploring Intersectionality and ­Hyper-Sexualization in Princess Shuri’s Tenure as Black Panther -- Hollie FitzMaurice
• Black Panther, Namor and Mimetic Violence in Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers -- Matthew Brake
• A Different Nation: Continuing a Legacy of Decolonization in Black Panther -- Julian C. Chambliss 

 
Davies, Dominic, and Candida Rifkind, editors. Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37998-8
 

• Introduction: Documenting Trauma in Comics – Dominic Davies
• Hierarchies of Pain: Trauma Tropes Today and Tomorrow – Katalin Orbán
• Emotional History and Legacies of War in Recent German Comics and Graphic Novels – Alexandra Lloyd
• The Past That Will Not Die: Trauma, Race, and Zombie Empire in Horror Comics of the 1950s – Michael Goodrum
• Exploring Trauma and Social Haunting Through Community Comics Creation – Sarah McNicol
• Comic: “Documenting Trauma” – Nicola Streeten
• Traumatic Moments: Retrospective ‘Seeing’ of Violation, Rupture, and Injury in Three Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives – E. Dawson Varughese
• This Side, That Side: Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition – A. P. Payal and Rituparna Sengupta
• Visual Detention: Reclaiming Human Rights Through Memory in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi – Haya Saud Alfarhan
• Comic: Crying in the Chapel – Una
• Folding, Cutting, Reassembling: Materializing Trauma and Memory in Comics – Ian Hague
• ‘To Create Her World Anew’: Charlotte Salomon’s Graphic Life Narrative – Emma Parker
• Una’s Becoming Unbecoming, Visuality, and Sexual Trauma – Ana Baeza Ruiz
• Discourses of Trauma and Representation: Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs – Eszter Szép
• Comic: First Person Third – Bruce Mutard
• Comics Telling Refugee Stories – Nina Mickwitz
• Migrant Detention Comics and the Aesthetic Technologies of Compassion – Candida Rifkind
• Comics as Memoir and Documentary: A Case Study of Sarah Glidden – Johannes C. P. Schmid
• Afterword – Hillary Chute

 
De Dauw, Esther, and Daniel J. Connell, editors. Toxic Masculinity. Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

• Introduction: The Subaltern and the Hegemonic – Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell
• The monstrous in Batwoman: Military Masculinity in Domestic Spaces – Esther De Dauw
• Days of Future Past: Queer Identities and the X-Men – Drew Murphy
• Emma Frost, the White Queen: Superpowers as the Performance of Gender – Richard Reynolds
• Conclusion: Reflecting on Toxic Masculinity - Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell

Dobrin, Sidney I. Ecocomix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels. McFarland, 2020.

• EcoComix: An Introduction -- Sidney I. Dobrin
• The Threat of (Non)Normative Nature: Queer Ecology in H2O and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge -- Ashley Holland
• The Middle Voice of EcoComix: Reading Philippe Squarzoni’s Climate Changed -- Terry Harpold
• Virtual Farmer, Real Activist? Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang’s In Real Life -- Anastasia Salter
• The “GUD,” the “BAD” and the Biorg: Reading the Postanimal in We3 -- Melissa Bianchi
• Follow the Concrete Submersible -- Sidney I. Dobrin
• “Where You Create Life”: Monsters and Nature in Black Orchid -- Spencer Chalifour
• How the Comic Book Store Became Ecological -- Aaron Kashtan
• Trees, ­Anti-Advocacy and Visual Rhetoric in Truax (A Parody of The Lorax) -- Madison Jones
• Treacherous Fields and Bunny Girls: Representations of Nature in Yuu Watase’s Alice 19th -- Catherine Kyle
• Killing Oliver Queen: Environmentalist Meaning and Demeaning in Green Arrow -- Eric C. Otto

 
Earle, Harriet E. H., Comics: An Introduction. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429317484
 
Elder, Robert K. Hemingway in Comics. Kent State University Press, 2020.
 
Falardeau, Mira. A History of Women Cartoonists. Mosaic Press, 2020.
 
Forceville, Charles. Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle. Oxford University Press, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845230.001.0001
 
Frankel, Valerie Estelle. Wonder Woman and Bad Girls: Superheroine and Supervillainess Archetypes in Popular Media. McFarland, 2020.
 
Giddens, Thomas, editor. Critical Directions in Comics Studies. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
 

• Critical Comics Studies: An Origin Story -- Thom Giddens
• On Violation: Comic Books, Delinquency, Phenomenology -- Christopher Pizzino
• Articulating Health Humanities in Graphic Narratives by Medical Illustrators -- Lisa DeTora
• “There is a  Man … with a Typewriter’: Deadpool as Existential Antihero, Breaking the Fourth Wall of Meaningful Existence -- Yasemin J. Erden
• Theological “Seeing” of Law: Daredevil, Christian Iconography, and Legal Aesthetics -- Timothy D. Peters
• Let’s Get Critical! -- Lydia Wysocki
• The Freedom of the Press: Comics, Labor, and Value in the Birmingham Arts Lab -- Maggie Gray
• Hate, Marginalization, and Tramp-Bashing: A Raceless and Critical Realist Approach to Researching British National Identity through Comics -- Lydia Wysocki
• Comics and Heteroglossia -- Paul Fisher Davies
• Women’s Cartoons and Comics in the Twenty-First Century: How the Humor in Simone Lia’s Fluffy Challenges Gendered Assumptions Around Parenting -- Nicola Streeten
• Politicization of Life and Auto-Thanatopolitics in V for Vendetta -- Vladislav Maksimov
• The Nested Text -- Paul Fisher Davies
• “Destructive Interim Formation” -- Thomas Giddens
• The Mask as Anti-Apparatus: On the Counter-Dispositif of V for Vendetta -- Peter Goodrich
• “So You Still Believe in the Future?” Socialist Utopianism and Marxist Critique in The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia -- Matthew J.A. Green
• The Parable of Bill Ayers: Comics, Allegory, and Critical Legal Thinking -- Adam Geary

 
Grennan, Simon, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite. Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist. Manchester University Press, 2020.
Guynes, Sean, and Martin Lund, editors. Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics. Ohio State University Press, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214183

• Foreword: Unmasking Whiteness: Re-Spacing the Speculative in Superhero Comics -- Frederick Luis Aldama
• Introduction: Not to Interpret, but to Abolish: Whiteness Studies and American Superhero Comics --  Sean Guynes and Martin Lund
• Marked for Failure: Whiteness, Innocence, and Power in Defining Captain America -- Osvaldo Oyola
• The Whiteness of the Whale and the Darkness of the Dinosaur: The Africanist Presence in Superhero Comics from Black Lightning to Moon Girl -- Eric Berlatsky and Sika Dagbovie-Mullins
• “The Original Enchantment”: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and Representational Logics in The New Mutants --  Jeremy M. Carnes
• Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Racial Politics of Cloak and Dagger -- Olivia Hicks
•  Worlds Collide: Whiteness, Integration, and Diversity in the DC/Milestone Crossover --  Shamika Ann Mitchell
• Whiteness and Superheroes in the Comix/Codices of Enrique Chagoya -- José Alaniz
• Seeing White: Normalization and Domesticity in Vision’s Cyborg Identity -- Esther De Dauw
• “Beware the Fanatic!”: Jewishness, Whiteness, and Civil Rights in X-Men (1963–1970) -- Martin Lund
• Mutation, Racialization, Decimation: The X-Men as White Men -- Neil Shyminsky
• White Plasticity and Black Possibility in Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier -- Sean Guynes
• White or Indian? Whiteness and Becoming the White Indian Comics Superhero -- Yvonne Chireau
• “A True Son of K’un-Lun”: The Awkward Racial Politics of White Martial Arts Superheroes in the 1970s -- Matthew Pustz
• The Whitest There Is at What I Do: Japanese Identity and the Unmarked Hero in Wolverine (1982) -- Eric Sobel
• The Dark Knight: Whiteness, Appropriation, Colonization, and Batman in the New 52 Era -- Jeffrey A. Brown
• Afterword: Empowerment for Some, or Tentacle Sex for All -- Noah Berlatsky

 
Hatfield, Charles, and Bart Beaty, editors. Comics Studies: A Guidebook. Rutgers University Press, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813591452

• Comic Strips – Ian Gordon
• Comic Books – Charles Hatfield
• Underground and Alternative Comics – Roger Sabin
• European Traditions – Bart Beaty
• Manga – Frenchy Lunning
• The Graphic Novel – Isaac Cates
• Comics Industries – Matthew P. McAllister and Brian MacAuley
• Readers, Audiences, and Fans – Benjamin Woo
• Children and Comics – Philip Nel
• Differences – Theresa Tensuan
• Cartooning – Andrei Molotiu
• Design in Comics: Panels and Pages – Martha Kuhlman
• Words and Images – Jan Baetens
• Superheroes – Marc Singer
• Autographics – Gillian Whitlock
• Girls, Women, and Comics – Mel Gibson
• Digital Comics – Darren Wershler, Kalervo Sinervo, and Shannon Tien

 
Hemmann, Kathryn. Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18095-9

Jones, Clint. Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel: Life and the Environment after Societal Collapse. McFarland, 2020.

Kleefeld, Sean. Webcomics. Bloomsbury, 2020. DOI: 10.5040/9781350028210

Koltun-Fromm, Ken. Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels. Penn State University Press, 2020.

Labarre, Nicolas. Understanding Genres in Comics. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43554-7
Langsdale, Samantha, and Elizabeth Rae Coody, editors. Monstrous Women in Comics. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827623.001.0001

• Introduction – Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody
• Rewriting to Control: How the Origins of Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, and Mary Magdalene Matter to Women’s Perceived Power – Elizabeth Rae Coody
• Exploring the Monstrous Feminist Frame: Marvel’s She-Hulk as Male-Centric Postfeminist Discourse – J. Richard Stevens
• “There Is More to Me Than Just Hunger”: Female Monsters and Liminal Spaces in Monstress and Pretty Deadly – Ayanni C. H. Cooper
• The (Un)Remarkable Fatness of Valiant’s Faith – Stefanie Snider
• New and Improved? Disability and Monstrosity in Gail Simone’s Batgirl – Charlotte Johanne Fabricius
• Horrible Victorians: Interrogating Power, Sex, and Gender in InSEXts – Keri Crist-Wagner
• Kicking Ass in Flip-Flops: Inappropriate/d Generations and Monstrous Pregnancy in Comics Narratives – Jeannie Ludlow
• The Monstrous Portrayal of the Maternal Bolivian Chola in Contemporary Comics – Marcela Murillo
• The Monstrous “Mother” in Moto Hagio’s Marginal: The Posthuman, the Human, and the Bioengineered Uterus – Tomoko Kuribayashi
• SeDUCKtress! Magica De Spell, Scrooge McDuck, and the Avuncular Anthropomorphism of Carl Barks’s Midcentury Disney Comics – Daniel F. Yezbick
• On the Edge of 1990s Japan: Kyoko Okazaki and the Horror of Adolescence – Novia Shih-Shan Chen and Sho Ogawa
• Chinese Snake Woman Resurfaces in Comics: Considering the Case Study of Calabash Brothers – Jing Zhang
• Monochromatic Teats, Teeth, and Tentacles: Monstrous Visual Rhetoric in Stephen L. Stern and Christopher Steininger’s Beowulf: The Graphic Novel – Justin Wigard
• Beauty and Her B(r)east(s): Monstrosity and College Women in The Jaguar – Pauline J. Reynolds and Sara Durazo-DeMoss
• UFO (Unusual Female Other) Sightings in Saucer Country/State: Metaphors of Identity and Presidential Politics – Christina M. Knopf
  
  

Lee, Judith Yaross and John Bird, editors. Seeing Mad: Essays on Mad Magazine’s Humor and Legacy. University of Missouri Press, 2020.

• Foreword: First There Was Mad: Reflections of a Former Managing Editor of National Lampoon – Peter Kaminsky
• Introduction: MADness, Mishugas, Manhattan: Mad as That Other New York(er) Humor – Judith Yaross Lee
• Inside the Editorial Process: Mad Veterans Jaffee and Meglin Look at Their Editors — Paul Levitz
• Harvey Kurtzman and Modern American Satire – M. Thomas Inge
• Al Feldstein and Mad’s Humor of Social Critique – Margaret Cavin Hambrick
• Wally Wood: Picturing Male Adolescent Desire in Mad’s Early Parodies – Joseph W. Slade
• The Lighter—and Weightier—Side of Mad; Or, Everything I Needed to Know About Gender and Sexuality I Learned from Dave Berg – Ann M. Ciasullo
• The Secret History of Alfred E. Neuman – Alan Rankin
• The “Mad 20” with Alfred E. Neuman; Or, It’s the Covers, Stupid – Christopher J. Gilbert
• The Prohías Paradox: The Cold War Specificity and Existential Universality of “Spy vs. Spy” – Michael J. Socolow
• Mad About Poe: Poetry in a Jugular Vein – Dennis W. Eddings
• Sing Along with Alfred: Humor, Satire, and Culture in the Music of Mad – John Bird
• You Always Hurt the Ones You Love: Mad Magazine’s Affectionate Parodies of Beloved Film Classics – Don Baird
• A Golden Age of Blecch: Mad Magazine’s Parodic Satire of Quality Television – Ethan Thompson
• Folding Against the Establishment: Satiric Distance and Difference in Al Jaffee’s Back Cover Feature in Mad Magazine – Kerry Soper
• A Secular Talmud: The Jewish Sensibility of Mad Magazine – Nathan Abrams
• Mutually Assured Disparagement: Enmification and Enlightenment in Early 1950s Mad – James J. Kimble
• Diplomats Gone Mad: A Musical Rumble – James D. Bloom
• Joining the Fray? Mad on Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew – Nicolas Labarre
• “Comedy before Country”: Engaged Levity and Absurdist Critique in Mad Magazine – Jeffrey St. Onge
• Genre Studies and Mad Magazine: Changing and Challenging Genres, 1953-1966 – Kathleen Mollick
• Sons of Mad: Harvey Kurtzman and the Rise of Underground Comix (an Alternate-Universe Analysis) – Nicholas Sammond
• Quotations from the Future: Harvey Kurtzman’s “Superduperman!,” Nostalgia, and Alan Moore’s Miracleman – Brian Cremins
  
  

Letizia, Angelo J. Graphic Novels as Pedagogy in Social Studies: How to Draw Citizenship. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44252-1
 
McKinney, Collin, and David F. Richter, editors. Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56820-7
 

• Graphic Spain: From Aleluyas to the “Second Boom” – Collin McKinney and David F. Richter
• Espacios en blanco: Historical Memory, Defeat, and the Comics Imaginary – Lena Tahmassian
• Memory, Amnesia, and Forgetting: Graphic Representations of a Chronic Disease in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Spain – Fernando Simón Abad
• Recovering the Irrecoverable: “The Memory of What Matters” in Three Works by Paco Roca – Diego Batista
• The Persistent Memories of Federico García Lorca: History, Poetry, and Spanish Graphic Narratives – David F. Richter
• Polemic Collision: Race, Immigration, and Gender Violence in Olimpita – Jeffrey K. Coleman
• “I Hate Being Chinese”: Migration, Cultural Identity, and Autobiography in Quan Zhou Wu’s Gazpacho agridulce – Adrián Collado
• Black and Basque Power: Visualizing Race and Resistance in Black is Beltza – N. Michelle Murray
• Gender, Genre, and Retribution in Rayco Pulido’s Lamia: A Historical Novel for the Present Day – Collin McKinney
• Maternal Life Writing in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Narratives: From Blog to Book – Marina Bettaglio
• “In This Country, the Past Never Dies”: Superheroes, Democracy, and the Culture of the Spanish Transition in ¡García! – Alberto Martín López
• The Right to Barcelona: Spectrality, Unbuiltness, and El fantasma de Gaudí – Maria DiFrancesco
• The Post-15M Condition: Liminality and Multitude in Spanish Graphic Narratives – Xavier Dapena

 
Mougin, Lou. Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics. McFarland, 2020.
 
Munson, Kim A, editor. Comic Art in Museums. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv128fpwk
 

• Comic Art in Museums: An Overview – Denis Kitchen
• Substance and Shadow: The Art of the Cartoon – Brian Walker
• Permanent Ink: Comic Book and Comic Strip Art as Aesthetic Object – Andrei Molotiu
• The Evolution of Comic Art Exhibitions, 1934-1951 – Kim A. Munson
• Narrative Illustration: The Story of the Comics – M. C. Gaines
• The First International: Exposicao Internacional de Historias em Quadrinhos – Alvaro de Moya
• Comics and Figurative Narration: What Pierre Couperie Contributed – Antoine Sausverd
• The Comic Stripped and Ash Canned: A Review Essay – Albert Boime
• Exhibitions at the Museum of Cartoon Art: A Personal Recollection – Brian Walker
• Mort Walker, Historian – Cullen Murphy
• Review/Art: Cartoon Masters—Cartoonists Finally Get Some Respect – Kenneth Baker
• Comics, Community, and the ToonSeum: An Interview with Joe Wos – Kim A. Munson
• Northern Ink: Misfit Lit in Minneapolis – Diana Green
• Our Heroes: African American Artists and Images in American Comic Book – Dwayne McDuffie
• Deviating from “Art”: Japanese Manga Exhibitions, 1990-2015 – Jaqueline Berndt
• The Glimmering Glow of Comic Art amidst the Blinding Glitter of the United Arab Emirates – John A. Lent
• Hypercomics: The Shape of Comics to Come – Paul Gravett
• Sequential Titillation: Comics Stripped at the Museum of Sex, New York – Craig Yoe
• Comic Connoisseurs – David Deitcher
• Comics as Art Criticism: The Cartoons of Jonah Kinigstein – Karen Green and Kim A. Munson
• High Way Robbery – Michael Dooley
• “High Art Lowdown”: This Review Is Not Sponsored by AT&T – Art Spiegelman
• How Low Can You Go? – John Carlin
• Cracking the Comics Canon – Leslie Jones
• An Uneasy Accord: LA Museums Open Their Walls to Comics as True Works of Art – Scott Timberg
• Here Are the Great Women Comic Artists of the United States – Trina Robbins
• Remasters of American Comics: Sequential Art as New Media in the Transformative Museum Context – Damian Duffy
• After Masters: Interview with Gary Panter – Kim A. Munson
• Splashing Ink on Museum Walls: How Comic Art Is Conquering Galleries, Museums, and Public Spaces – Rob Salkowitz
• In Our Own Image, After Our Likeness – Charles Hatfield
• Showing Pages and Progress: Interview with Carol Tyler – Kim A. Munson
• Curating Comics Canons: Daniel Clowes and Art Spiegelman’s Private Museums – Benoit Crucifix
• Co-Mix and Exhibitions: Interview with Art Spiegelman – Kim A. Munson
• Introduction to Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby – Charles Hatfield
• Jack Kirby at Cal State Northridge – Doug Harvey
• Genius in a Box – Alexi Worth

 
Nayar, Pramod K. The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing It Just Right. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003110255
 
Nolan, Michelle. Archie’s Rivals in Teen Comics, 1940s-1970s: An Illustrated History. McFarland, 2020.
 
Ormrod, Joan. Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury, 2020.
 
Packer, Sharon, and Daniel R. Fredrick, editors. Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City Institution. McFarland, 2020.

• Introduction: Why Arkham, Why Now? -- Sharon Packer
• The Differential Diagnosis of Elizabeth Arkham -- Elyse D. Weiner
• ECT in Arkham Asylum: Pacification, Assassination and Electrocution -- Timothy W. Kneeland
• Hallucinations and Psychedelics in Arkham -- Matthew Brown and Fernando Espí Forcén
• I’m [Virtual] Batman: Violence and Video Games -- Ryan C.W. Hall and Susan Hatters Friedman
• Deadly and Dysfunctional Family Dynamics: When Fiction Mirrors Fact -- Susan Hatters Friedman and Ryan C.W. Hall
• Murderous Minds, Arkham Villains and Real (Not Reel) Life Movie Massacres -- Sharon Packer
• Anti-Psychiatry and the Arkham Asylum -- Fernando Espí Forcén
• Harley Quinn and the Joker: Pitfalls of ­Doctor-Patient Romances -- Sharon Packer
• Unethical Experiments in Arkham and Elsewhere -- Sharon Packer
• Arkham’s Sinister Psychiatrists and the Continuum with Caligari -- Sharon Packer
• Haunted by Madness: Horror and the Supernatural in Arkham Asylum -- Michael Markus
• Breaking Out: The Escaped Mental Patient in the Batman Universe -- Jeffrey Bullins
• The Suicide Squad: From Bad to Good and Back Again -- Jaq Greenspon and Rasa Greenspon
• Animated Arkham: Television and Children’s Perceptions of Psychiatric Treatment -- Kristi Rowan Humphreys
• The Fine Line Between Sanity and Madness in Star Trek’s “Whom Gods Destroy” and Arkham Asylum: A Serious Place on Serious Earth -- Darren ­Harris-Fain and Eric J. Sterling
• If Walls Could Scream: Embedded Narratives and Mazes of Madness in the Virtual Space of Arkham Asylum -- Shawn Edrei
• Excavating Arkham: The Mental Asylum as Horrible Homecoming -- Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
• Bizarro Arkham, Bizarro World: The Looking Glass Looks Back -- Aaron Barlow
• The ­Neo-Expressionist Agony of Arkham Asylum -- Rosa JH Berland
• Surrealism’s Influence on Arkham and Psychiatry’s Influence on Surrealism -- Sharon Packer
• Poe’s Place in Arkham Asylum: Precursors and Parallels -- Caleb Puckett
• H.P. Lovecraft, Literary Heritage and Batman: Arkham Asylum  -- Eric Sandberg
• Evil Clowns and Acrobats: The Joker and Harley Quinn -- Adam W. Darlage
• Matricide and Myth -- Daniel R. Fredrick

 
Peppard, Anna F, editor. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero. University of Texas Press, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7560/321607

• Introduction: Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex -- Anna F. Peppard
• Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power -- Richard Reynolds

·       Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age -- Matt Yockey
·       A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm -- J. Andrew Deman
·       Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers -- Brian Johnson
·       “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes -- Sarah Panuska
·       Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers -- Keith Friedlander
·       X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability -- Christopher B. Zeichmann
·       Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy -- Samantha Langsdale
·       “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman -- Anna F. Peppard
·       The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity -- Jeffrey A. Brown
·       “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies -- Joseph Brennan
·       “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power -- Olivia Hicks
·       Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay -- Anne Kustritz

• Epilogue: The Matter with Size -- Richard Harrison

 
Peter, Anu Mary, and Sathyaraj Venkatesan. Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087564
 
Piepmeier, Olivia, and Stephanie Grimm, editors. Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries. Library Juice Press, 2019.

• Introduction -- Olivia Piepmeier and Stephanie Grimm
• Beyond Representation: Addressing the Role of Empathy through Diversity in Graphic Narratives -- Kamaria Hatcher
• The Work of Critical Sequential Art Selection in Academic Libraries -- Elliott Kuecker and Brad Hawley
• Making Use of the White Space: The Mazinbiige Indigenous Graphic Novel Collection at the University of Manitoba -- Camille Callison, Niigaanwewidam Sinclair, and Greg Bak
• Black to the Future: A Librarian’s Guide to Building an Afrofuturist Comics and Graphic Novels Collection -- Kai Alexis Smith and Aisha Conner-Gaten
• Challenging “Stereotypes and Fixity”: African American Comic Books in the Academic Archive -- Brian Flota
• Building a South Asian Comics Collection -- Mara L. Thacker
• Advocating for Diversity: Collecting Comics to Reflect Our Students -- Breanne Crumpton, Michelle Mitchell, Alva Jones Jr., and Jenay Solomon
• Comics in Special Collections: Purposeful Collection Development for Promoting Inclusive History -- Caitlin McGurk and Jenny E. Robb
• Apocalyptic Comics, Women Detectives, and the Many Faces of Batgirl: Creating More Inclusive Comic Records through Flexible Cataloging Practices -- Liz Adams and Rich Murray
• Specter of Censorship: Comics in Academic Library Leisure Reading Collections -- Andrew Wang
• The Extraordinary Result of Doing Something Ordinary -- Kelly McElroy
• Visualizing Arguments: Constructing Comics to Unpack Scholarly Texts -- Samantha Kirk and Patricia Guardiola
• Comics as Social Movement Primary Sources: The Consciousness-Raising Comics of the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste -- David Woken
• The Value of Nonfiction Comics for Critical Information Literacy Instruction -- Carly Diab
• Excavating Visual Texts: Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, and the Graphic Novel in the Crime Fiction Classroom -- Susanne F. Paterson and Carolyn White Gamtso
• Drawing them In: Critical Use of Comics in Library Exhibitions and Programs -- Gerald Natal and Jennifer Martinez Wormser
• Comics in the Clinic -- Kathryn M. Houk, Michelle P. Green, Matthew Noe, and Ariel Pomputius
• Feminist Curating with Our Comics, Ourselves -- Jan Descartes and Monica Johnson
• Minicomics Workshops and Comic Arts Fairs to Empower Our Communities -- Lindsay Gibb

 
Precup, Mihaela. The Graphic Lives of Fathers: Memory, Representation, and Fatherhood in North American Autobiographical Comics. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36218-8
 
Rauscher, Andreas, Daniel Stein, and Jan-Noël Thon, editors. Comics and Video Games: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions. Routledge, 2020.
 

• Introduction: Comics and videogames -- Andreas Rauscher, Daniel Stein, and Jan-Noël Thon
• Of Pac-Men and Star Raiders: Early mutual representations between comics and videogames (1981–1983) -- Nicolas Labarre
• Interfacing comics and games: A socio-affective multimodal approach -- Carman Ng
• Game comics: Theory and design -- Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
• Game-comics and comic-games: Against the concept of hybrids -- Hans-Joachim Backe
• Building stories: The interplay of comics and games in Chris Ware’s works -- Nina Eckhoff-Heindl
• Homestuck as a game: A webcomic between playful participation, digital technostalgia, and irritating inventory systems -- Tim Glaser
• Metal Gear Solid and its comic adaptations -- Claudius Stemmler
• Many Spider-Men are better than one: Referencing as narrative strategy -- Dominik Mieth
• The not-so Fantastic Four franchise: A critical history of the comic, the films, and the Disney/Fox merger -- Robert Alan Brookey and Nan Zhang
• The road to Arkham Asylum: Batman: Dark Tomorrow and transitional transmedia -- James Fleury
• When rules collide: Definitional strategies for superheroes across comic books and games -- William Uricchio
• The manifestations of game characters in a media mix strategy -- Joleen Blom
• Creating Lara Croft: The meaning of the comic books for the Tomb Raider franchise -- Josefa Much
• Beyond immersion: Gin Tama and palimpsestuous reception -- Susana Tosca

 
Rhode, Michael and John A. Lent. Comics Research Bibliography 2020 ebook edition, ComicsDC, 2020, Arlington, VA.
 
Richardson, Chris. Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809874

Rifas, Leonard. Korean War Comic Books. McFarland, 2020.

Squier, Susan Merrill, and Irmela Marei, Krüger-Fürhoff, editors. PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. Penn State University Press, 2020.

• Introduction -- Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
• The Reflecting Physician -- Einat Avrahami
• Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow -- Tahneer Oksman
• Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphics -- Nina Schmidt
• The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain -- Ariela Freedman
• The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and Comics -- Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
• “Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of Work -- Rieke Jordan
• Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons -- Helen Spandler
• Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial Comics -- Leah Misemer
• Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and Collaboration -- Elizabeth J. Donaldson
• The Quickening -- stef lenk
• Interview with stef lenk on The Quickening -- Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier
• Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational Trauma -- Maureen Burdock
• Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative -- Susan Merrill Squier
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Stańczyk, Ewa. Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429486210

• Introduction – Ewa Stańczyk
• Picturing anti-Semitism in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands: anti-Jewish stereotyping in a racist Second World War comic strip – Kees Ribbens
• Four colour anti-fascism: postwar narratives and the obfuscation of the Holocaust in East German comics – Sean Eedy
• De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish comic books – Ewa Stańczyk
• Between memory, didacticism and the Jewish revival: The Holocaust in Italian comic books – Paolino Nappi
• The Shoah, Czech comics and Drda/Mazal’s “The Enormous Disc of the Sun” – José Alaniz
• “Draw yourself out of it”: Miriam Katin’s graphic metamorphosis of trauma – Diederik Oostdijk
• Mapping transgenerational memory of the Shoah in third generation graphic narratives: on Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch (2016) – Dana Mihăilescu
• Not seeing Auschwitz: memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics – Claire Gorrara

 
Streeten, Nicola. UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey. Palgrave, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36300-0  
Szép, Eszter. Comic and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability. Ohio State University Press, 2020.
Tarbox, Gwen Athene. Children’s and Young Adult Comics. Bloomsbury, 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350009233
Toku, Masami and Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase, editors. Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education. InSEA Publications, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24981/2020-3

• Introduction-- Maskami Toku and Hiromi Tsychiya Dollase
• The Grammar of Manga: Manga’s Inherent Hyōgen ‘Stylistics’-- Fusanosuke Natsume
• Manga’s Influences: New Direction of Artistic and Aesthetic Developments in Children’s Pictorial World-- Masami Toku
• A Look at Manga in Japanese Public Education-- Osamu Sahara
• Lesson Learned from Manga High: A Pedagogical Approach for Educators-- Michael Bitz
• Becoming and Unbecoming a Mangaka: The Informal and Formal Pedagogy of Fame-- Brent Wilson
• Manga as Childhood Visual Culture-- Ryan Shin and Jihyun Sohn
• Manga Mashup on Second Life: Kawaii Cute Clothes, Creatures and Creeps-- Mary Stokrocki
• Youth Animé/Manga Dōjin/Fan Art as a Hybrid Space: Rethinking Creativity and Learning-- Jin-Shiow Chen
• Imaginary Depictions of Sexuality and Gender Construction in Manga- A Case Study of Three Manga Fans-- Hsiao-ping Chen
• Questioning the Racial Question: Scenes from Manga, Theater Auditions, and Other Unlikely Places-- Natsu Onoda Power
• We Are Now United by the Common Language Called “Manga”-- Machiko Satonaka
• Manga as a Teaching Tool for Enhancing Learning and Understanding of Japanese Classical Literature-- Paola Scrolavezza
• Toward “Reciprocal Legitimation” between Shakespeare’s Works and Manga-- Yukari Yoshihara
• Looking at the Human World through the Eyes of Yokai in Natsume’s Book of Friends--Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
• Girls in Boys’ and Men’s Manga-- Mia Elise Lewis
• From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Teaching Social Engagement through Manga-- Tomoko Aoyama, Kenko Kawasaki, and Lucy Fraser
• Teaching the 3.11 Earthquake and Disaster in Japanese Language Classroom-- Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
• The Japanese the Japanese Don’t Know in the Japanese Language Classroom-- Nathen Clerici
• A Japanese Manga Literature Textbook for Developing Communicative Competence-- Mitsuaki Shimojo
• What Can We Do with Emotive Adjectives?: Manga as a Visual Facilitator of Empathetic Expressions-- Sayaka Abe
• Manga in the Mix: Naruto and Media Specificity-- Rachael Hutchinson
• Teaching Manga: A Medium Specific Approach to Manga/Comics beyond Area Studies--Shige (CJ) Suzuki

 
Varughese, E. Dawson, and Rajinder Dudrah, editors. Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007807

• Graphics of the Multitude: Reading Figure and Text in Drawing from the City -- Filippo Menozzi
• Development Narratives, Media and Women in Pakistan: Shifts and Continuities -- Shirin Zubair
• Diasporic (Dis)Identification: The Participatory Fandom of Ms. Marvel -- Winona Landis
• Visualising Caste: A Gardener in the Wasteland and the politics of graphic adaptation -- Deepali Yadav
• Watching Zindagi, Pakistani Social Lives on Indian TV -- Spandan Bhattacharya and Anugyan Nag
• War Cry of the Beggars: An exploration into city, cinema and graphic narratives -- Madhuja Mikherjee
• Remnants of a Separation: a ghara and a gaz, from Lahore to Amritsar to Delhi -- Aanchal Malhotra
• Tamil Comics: New Media, revival, and the recovery of history -- Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
• ‘IMPOSTERS’: an interview with graphic artist and designer Orijit Sen -- E. Dawson Varughese
  
  

Viljoen, Jeanne-Marie. War Comics : A Postcolonial Perspective. Routledge, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003081364

Wanzo, Rebecca. The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging. New York University Press, 2020.

Weissbrod, Rachel, and Ayelet Kohn. Translating the Visual: A Multimodal Perspective. Routledge, 2019.
Williams, Paul. Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics. Rutgers University Press, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978805101

Withers, Jeremy. Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction. Liverpool University Press, 2020. DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621754.001.0001

Articles and Essays 

The citations in this section include peer-reviewed journal articles and essays from scholarly anthologies not primarily devoted to comics.

Abate, Michelle Ann. “The Far Side of Comeeks: Gary Larson, Lynda Barry, and Ugliness.” ImageText, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020.

Abate, Michelle Ann. ““They’re Quite Strange in the Larval Stage”: Children and Childhood in Gary Larson’s “The Far Side”.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 21, no. 1, 2019, pp. 390-422.

Acosta, Claudia Maria. “Print and PDF Culture: The Transmediation of Public Intimacy, Allied Readership and Feminist Collage by Millennial Zinesters.” ImageText, vol. 11, no. 3, 2020.

Ahmed, Maaheen. “From the Archives: The Alain Van Passen Collection: At the Crossroads of Comics Collecting and Critique.” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 4, no.2, 2020, pp. 221-236.

Ahrens, Jörn. Joe Sacco and the Quest for Documentation in Comics.” ImageText, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020.

Aigbedion, Irenae A. “Graphic Accounts of Violence: Visualizing Slavery in American Comics.” ImageText, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020.

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