New book: Moebius
The first English-language volume to explore the career of the comics artist who inspired Blade Runner, Akira, and Hayao Miyazaki. Jean Giraud (1938–2012) started drawing comics in the late 1950s…
Oregon Cartoons & Cartooning: Past, Present, Future
The first English-language volume to explore the career of the comics artist who inspired Blade Runner, Akira, and Hayao Miyazaki. Jean Giraud (1938–2012) started drawing comics in the late 1950s…
By Margaret Galvan In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing…
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to The Ohio State University Libraries’ Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and generous support provided by a grant…
Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the authors grief surrounding his mothers death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia,…
A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time! This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai’s classic novel,…
The Comics Research Bibliography began as an online resource in 1996. John Bullough, struck by the success of the Grand Comics Database crowd-sourcing project, proposed a companion project of a…
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 life in…
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 to) represent,…
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 as brutal…
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 comics have…