Comic Book & Cartoon Art

The latest in the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli artbooks, which includes interviews, concept sketches, and finished animation cels from...

This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con international, the largest annual celebration of...

This work takes an in-depth look at the world of comic books through the eyes of a Native American reader and offers frank commentary on the med...

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the multitude of non-Archie teen humor comic books, including girls and boys such as Patsy Wal...

From the beginning, both Robert Kirkman's comics and AMC's series of The Walking Dead have brought controversy in their presentations of race, g...

Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presagin...

The first superhero team from the Silver Age of comics, DC's Justice League has seen many iterations since its first appearance in 1960. As the ori...

While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity makes his character easily c...

Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity...

In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham's Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures--Snow Whit...

Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the ...

Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Doré has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earne...