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Jules Feiffer’s Noir Trilogy

by Fabrice Leroy

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781978842915

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2025-05-13

Format: Paperback

204 Pages

Latinx Comics Studies

Critical and Creative Approaches

Edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui

Introduction by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui

Contributions by Jessica Rutherford, Stephanie Contreras, Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, Nicky Rodriguez, Marcel Brousseau, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Kaitlin E. Thomas, Héctor Rodriguez III, Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Terry Blas, Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero, Maite Urcaregui, Breena Nuñez, Fernanda Díaz-Basteris, Frederick Luis Aldama, Lars Allen, Conrado Parraguirre, Jennifer Gómez-Menjivar and Nicole Amato

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781978835405

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2025-04-15

Format: Paperback

252 Pages

Supervillains

The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics

by Nao Tomabechi

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781978839373

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2025-01-14

Format: Paperback

224 Pages

Singular Sensations

A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States

by Michelle Ann Abate

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781978840683

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2024-09-13

Format: Paperback

254 Pages

Soviet-Born

The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction

by Karolina Krasuska

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781978832763

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2024-07-12

Format: Paperback

206 Pages

Smoothing the Jew

"Abie the Agent" and Ethnic Caricature in the Progressive Era

by Jeffrey A. Marx

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781978836341

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2024-06-14

Format: Paperback

208 Pages

Christianity and Comics

Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell

by Blair Davis

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781978828216

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2024-03-15

Format: Paperback

314 Pages

Desegregating Comics

Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

Edited by Qiana Whitted

by Qiana Whitted

Contributions by Ian Gordon, Nicholas Sammond, Andrew J. Kunka, Rebecca Wanzo, Chris Gavaler, Monalesia Earle, Blair Davis, Eli Boonin-Vail, Carol L. Tilley, Qiana Whitted, Brian Cremins, Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Jacque Nodell, Julian C. Chambliss and Mike Lemon

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9781978825017

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2023-05-12

Format: Paperback

368 Pages

Hero Me Not

The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero

by Chesya Burke

Price: $30.95

ISBN: 9781978821057

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2023-04-14

Format: Paperback

172 Pages

Litcomix

Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel

by Adam Geczy and Jonathan McBurnie

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781978828650

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2023-03-17

Format: Paperback

270 Pages

Perfect Copies

Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic

by Shiamin Kwa

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781978826571

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2023-01-13

Format: Paperback

196 Pages

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

by Andrew J. Kunka

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781978818859

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-12-10

Format: Paperback

196 Pages

Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes

by Jeffrey A. Brown

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781978825260

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-19

Format: Paperback

244 Pages

Comics and the Origins of Manga

A Revisionist History

by Eike Exner

Price: $30.95

ISBN: 9781978827226

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-12

Format: Paperback

270 Pages

Robin and the Making of American Adolescence

by Lauren R. O'Connor

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781978819795

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-08-13

Format: Paperback

222 Pages

Mixed-Race Superheroes

Edited by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky

Contributions by Eric L. Berlatsky, Gregory T. Carter, Chris Gavaler, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Nicholas E. Miller, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Jorge J. Santos Jr., Kwasu David Tembo, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Corrine Esther Collins, Jasmine Mitchell and Adrienne Resha

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781978814592

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-04-16

Format: Paperback

288 Pages

Hot Pants and Spandex Suits

Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books

by Esther De Dauw

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781978806030

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-01-15

Format: Paperback

216 Pages

Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts

Marvel, Diversity and the 21st Century Superhero

by Jeffrey A. Brown

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781978809215

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2021-01-15

Format: Paperback

180 Pages

Comics Studies

A Guidebook

Edited by Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty

Price: $41.95

ISBN: 9780813591414

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2020-08-14

Format: Paperback

336 Pages

Rebuilding Story Worlds

The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters

by Jan Baetens

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781978808478

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2020-06-12

Format: Paperback

198 Pages

Dreaming the Graphic Novel

The Novelization of Comics

by Paul Williams

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781978805064

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2020-01-17

Format: Paperback

278 Pages

Holocaust Graphic Narratives

Generation, Trauma, and Memory

by Victoria Aarons

Price: $33.95

ISBN: 9781978802551

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2019-12-19

Format: Paperback

256 Pages

The Superhero Symbol

Media, Culture, and Politics

Edited by Liam Burke, Ian Gordon and Angela Ndalianis

Contributions by Liam Burke, Henry Jenkins, Neal Curtis, Jason Bainbridge, Mitchell Adams, Ian Gordon, Tara Lomax, Dan Golding, Steven Conway, Claire Langsford, Vladislav Iouchkov, John McGuire, Naja Later, Paul M. Malone, Shan Mu Zhao and Kevin Patrick

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780813597164

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2019-12-13

Format: Paperback

336 Pages

Only at Comic-Con

Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity

by Erin Hanna

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9780813594705

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2019-12-13

Format: Paperback

300 Pages

Serial Selves

Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics

by Frederik Byrn Køhlert

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9780813592251

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2019-03-15

Format: Paperback

242 Pages

EC Comics

Race, Shock, and Social Protest

by Qiana Whitted

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9780813566313

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2019-03-08

Format: Paperback

196 Pages

Incorrigibles and Innocents

Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics

by Lara Saguisag

Price: $35.95

ISBN: 9780813591766

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2018-10-05

Format: Paperback

248 Pages

Cultures of War in Graphic Novels

Violence, Trauma, and Memory

Edited by Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal

Contributions by Tatiana Prorokova, Nimrod Tal, Iain A. MacInnes, Kenton Worcester, Emir Pasanovic, Harriet E.H. Earle, James Kelley, Joe Lockard, Christina M. Knopf, Peter C. Valenti, Silvia G. Kurlat Ares and Yasmine Nachabe Taan

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9780813590950

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2018-07-06

Format: Paperback

237 Pages

Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics

New edition with full color illustrations

by Andrew Hoberek

Price: $38.95

ISBN: 9780813590363

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2017-05-31

Format: Paperback

224 Pages

Wonder Woman

New edition with full color illustrations

by Noah Berlatsky

Price: $38.95

ISBN: 9780813590431

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2017-05-31

Format: Paperback

264 Pages

Twelve-Cent Archie

New edition with full color illustrations

by Bart Beaty

Price: $38.95

ISBN: 9780813590455

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2017-05-31

Format: Paperback

234 Pages

Superman

The Persistence of an American Icon

by Ian Gordon

Price: $38.95

ISBN: 9780813587516

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2017-02-13

Format: Paperback

200 Pages

Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism

by Paul Young

Price: $38.95

ISBN: 9780813563817

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2016-07-27

Format: Paperback

292 Pages

The Blacker the Ink

Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

Edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings

Contributions by Frances Gateward, John Jennings, Daniel F. Yezbick, Sally McWilliams, Patrick F. Walter, Nancy Goldstein, Robin Means Coleman, William Lafi Youmans, Consuela Francis, Andre Carrington, Reynaldo Anderson, Blair Davis, Kinohi Nishikawa, Qiana Whitted, Craig Fischer, Hershini Bhana Young, James J. Zeigler and Rebecca Wanzo

Price: $40.95

ISBN: 9780813572338

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Pub Date: 2015-07-16

Format: Paperback

356 Pages