Comics Studies Books
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,215 ratings — published 1993
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,291 ratings — published 1985
Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,825 ratings — published 2000
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,708 ratings — published 2008
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,801 ratings — published 2006
Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 336 ratings — published 2017
Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,569 ratings — published 2011
Reading Comics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,239 ratings — published 2007
Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 501 ratings — published 2001
Superman: The Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 289 ratings — published 1998
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,677 ratings — published 2004
All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,100 ratings — published 2021
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,580 ratings — published 2021
Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 2.54 — 176 ratings — published 1954
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Gender and Culture Series)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 174 ratings — published 2010
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,533 ratings — published 2012
How to Read Superhero Comics and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 100 ratings — published 2002
Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (Studies in Popular Culture (Paperback))
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 60 ratings — published 1998
Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 135 ratings — published 2006
Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 59 ratings — published 2009
Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Studies in Popular Culture Series)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 85 ratings — published 1992
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (Studies in Popular Culture)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.59 — 44 ratings — published 2004
Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 72 ratings — published 2005
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,271 ratings — published 1996
Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.39 — 72 ratings — published
Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Making Comics (Lynda Barry's Creativity Series)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,273 ratings — published 2019
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 530 ratings — published 2023
The System of Comics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 186 ratings — published 1999
How Comics Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 77 ratings — published
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published 2023
Comics Studies: A Guidebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.65 — 101 ratings — published 1996
Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 138 ratings — published 2018
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 377,068 ratings — published 1986
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 158,643 ratings — published 1991
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 27 ratings — published 2022
The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Unflattening (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,773 ratings — published 2015
Retcon Game: Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 2017
The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2021
From Aargh! to Zap!: Harvey Kurtzman's Visual History of the Comics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 19 ratings — published 1991
Writers on Comics Scriptwriting, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 200 ratings — published 1999
Superhero Culture Wars: Politics, Marketing, and Social Justice in Marvel Comics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904-1913)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published 2007
Erotic Comics: A Graphic History from Tijuana Bibles to Underground Comix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 141 ratings — published 2008
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics (Studies in Comics and Cartoons)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2017
A Comics Studies Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as comics-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 86 ratings — published 2008
