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New Book: Wildfire by Oregon Cartoonist Breena Bard

An inspiring and moving graphic novel, Wildfire follows climate change through the eyes of one middle-school girl, who’s eager to turn her anger into action. Julianna loved her…

Free ebook: Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds

Superhero meaning making is a site of struggle. Superheroes (are thought to) trouble borders and normative ways of seeing and being in the world. Superhero narratives (are thought…

Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared…

Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices

Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses…

Now in Paperback: Female Cartoonists in the United States Bad Girls and Invisible Women

This book by Hélène Tison provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the US, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light…

New book: I am Stan. By Tom Scioli.

The first graphic novel biography of the legendary Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel’s beloved superheroes, from Eisner-nominated comics creator Tom Scioli. Everyone knows Stan Lee: His…

New book: Ilan Manouach in Review. Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly. An international team…

All Nib magazines are available for FREE

The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end of August. But before they go, they are making all 15 issues of…

Free e-book: Comics of the New Europe

Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from…

ONI Press to release Matthias Lehmann’s celebrated historical LGBTQ+ German graphic novel PARALLEL (June 2023)

The following appeared on THE BEAT. We are republishing here. The original news release, written by Dean Simons, can be found here. Oni Press have announced today that…