Recommended Books
Christiansen, Hans-Christian & Magnussen, Anne, eds. Comics & Culture: Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics. Denmark: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000.
Eisner, Will. Comics and Sequential Art. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Eisner, Will. Graphic Storytelling and the Visual Narrative. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Fielder, Leslie. Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium. U Mississippi, 2004
Hajdu, David. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008
Lyga, Allison and Barry. Graphic Novels in Your Media Center: A Definitive Guide. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Varnedoe, Kirk. Modern Art and Popular Culture: Readings in High and Low. New York: Harry M. Abrams, 1990.
Internet Resources
Brodart Publishing. “Core Lists of Graphic Novels.” http://www.graphicnovels.brodart.com/core_lists.htm
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. “Censorship of Comics Bibliography.” http://www.cbldf.org/research/biblio-index.shtml.
“Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies,” “Comics Dissertations.” Comics Research. http://www.comicsresearch.org
“Comics in the Classroom.” TeachingDegree.org. http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/07/05/comics-in-the-classroom-100-tips-tools-and-resources-for-teachers/
Graphic Novel Reporter. The Book Report, Inc. http://graphicnovelreporter.com
ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/
International Comic Arts Forum. http://www.internationalcomicartsforum.org/
McCloud, Scott. “Journal.” http://scotmccloud.com.
National Association of Comic Arts Educators. NACAE. http://teachingcomics.org
Will Eisner Studios, Inc. “Will Eisner’s Official Web Site.” http://willeisner.com
Comics Art Scholars & Friends
John Lent, Professor of communications, editor of “International Journal on Comic Art”
Jose Alaniz, Professor of comparative literature, author of “Komiks: Comic Art in Russia”
Gene Kannenberg, Creator/director of ComicsResearch.org
Lan Dong, Editor of “Critical Approaches to Teaching Graphic Narratives in the Literature Classroom”
Karen Green, Creator of “Comic Adventures in Academia“
University Press of Mississippi – “The comic scholar’s best friend,” published more books about comics than any other academic publisher in the U.S.
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