Month: December 2022

New book: Art History for Comics. Past, Present and Potential Futures, by Ian Horton and Maggie Gray

From the publisher’s website: This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how…

New book: Comics and Nation. Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland, by Ewa StaƄczyk

From the publisher’s website: Comics and Nation offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular culture in the one-hundred-year history of the Polish state, from its foundation…

New book: Dirty Pictures by Brian Doherty (June 2022)

Straight from the publisher’s website: A COMPLETE NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF UNDERGROUND COMIX In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags,…