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Jeet Heer
Offers a collection of literary criticism that touches on a wide range of contemporary topics. This title considers the literary and social contributions of canonical authors, artists, theorists and polemicists…
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Learn about the woman behind the graphic novel revolution, Francoise Mouly, and her long relationship with Art Maus Spiegelman.
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Brings together nearly two dozen essays by major writers and intellectuals who analyzed, embraced, and even attacked comic strips and comic books in the period between the turn of the…
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Interviews compiled from the Inkstuds radio program archive.
Joe Ollmann
Ollmann has been called the best writer of short story comics. Featuring a lengthy introduction, this is the definative collection of those stories. . This omnibus makes obvious that there…
Offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga…
Martin Vaughn-James,Jeet Heer
Two titles bound back-to-back and inverted.
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Chris Ware,Frank King,Jeet Heer
Includes an introduction by Jeet Heer and endnotes by Tim Samuelson.
A collection exploring race and representation on Canadian campuses with the infamous Maclean’s ‘Too Asian’ article as a flashpoint
The Someday Funnies began as a small project by Michel Choquette, a young and ambitious National Lampoon editor, in the 1970s. However, the project took on a life of its…
Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on…
A catalogue for the extensive Art Gallery of Hamilton exhibition.
Gustave Verbeek
Get lost in the work of one of the most innovative and unique comic strip artists of the early 20th century.
