Graphic novel & comic books: guides & reviews

A premium, lavishly illustrated compendium of specially curated essays, boasting stunning, newly commissioned maps, illustrations, and diagrams, which explores iconic Marvel locations.Navigate a universe of wonders. Chart a journey across Marvel C..

54.71£

Marvel Year by Year A Visual History

Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

A new edition of the most comprehensive history of Marvel Comics ever published.Deep dive into the full story of Marvel Comics in a single, beautifully illustrated volume.Created in full collaboration with Marvel, this fan-favorite title, last publi..

79.56£

Marvel Year By Year A Visual History New Edition

Brand: GoodKnight Books

A new edition of the most comprehensive history of Marvel Comics ever published.Deep dive into the full story of Marvel Comics in a single, beautifully illustrated volume. Created in full collaboration with Marvel, this fan-favorite title, last pub..

91.18£

Marvel: Mundos Y Escenarios

Brand: GoodKnight Books

ISBN: 9780744079227Publisher: DKImprint: Dorling KindersleyPublished date: 16 May 2023Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 240Weight: 567gHeight: 302mmWidth: 252mm..

45.03£

Maverix and Lunatix Icons of Underground Comix

Brand: Fantagraphics Books

With the publication of R. Crumb's debut issue of Zap in 1968, the Underground Comix revolution exploded, creating a major paradigm shift and blowing the lid off the traditional comic book. Maverix & Lunatix features 101 full page portraits (and mor..

39.82£

Monstrous Youth Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States

Brand: Ohio State University Press

The monstrous has a long, complicated history within children's popular media. In Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States, Sara Austin traces the evolution of monstrosity as it relates to youth culture from th..

42.88£

Brand: Draft2digital

Moose Lake is a comic strip that has appeared in several daily newspapers. Not always easy to divide into categories, it approaches various topics with sarcasm and intention, such as business, law, government, psychology, art, culture science and te..

23.76£

NUVOLE 2.0: Pantheon contemporaneo: i supereroi dai fumetti al cinema mainstream

Brand: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Avete visto al cinema Deadpool o Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot e vi hanno stupito? Oppure i mainstream Batman v Superman o Capitan America: Civil War? Siete fan delle serie televisive di Daredevil, The Flasho Gotham? O più semplicemente siete o siete sta..

32.69£

Old Trout Funnies: The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army

"Now iconic to Canadian, if not global culture, Cape Breton Island underwent a metamorphosis of sorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Long marginalized by geography, economics and predominant mainland political culture, a countercultural sea change brou..

25.20£

Operation Ajax The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East

The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers begin to take interest in the political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a generation, but the Shah's hold on peace is shaky as ..

21.91£

Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics - Critical Media Studies

Through each of its chapters, 'Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics' examines the complex dynamics of adapting serialized texts. The transmedial adaptation of collaborative and unstable texts does not lend itself to the same strategies as o..

45.83£

Printing Terror American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique

Brand: Manchester University Press

Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in which these texts manifest whit..

101.28£

Pulp Empire The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most unfiltered-entertainment in the United States. Publishers sol..

33.02£

Resilient Memories Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art - Cognitive Approaches to Culture

Brand: Ohio State University Press

Arij Ouweneel's Resilient Memories: Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art takes a cognitive approach to the mediation of collective memory by works of art. In looking at cultural production of Amerindians-the transnational mnemonic comm..

89.62£

Seduction of the Innocent

ISBN: 9781596830004Publisher: Main Road BooksImprint: Main Road BooksPublished date: 19 Mar 1999DEWEY: 155.92DEWEY edition: 23Number of pages: xliv, 400 , 16 unnumbered of platesWeight: 726gHeight: 221mmWidth: 145mmSpine width: 33mm..

82.58£

Shot in the Face A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan

Published in 1997-2002, Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's Transmetropolitan became famous for its foul-mouthed protagonist, Spider Jerusalem, and his "filthy assistants." But it's also a long-form comics masterpiece, a sci-fi comic that succeeded ..

21.59£

Spider-Man Inside the World of Your Friendly Neighbourhood Hero

Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Discover amazing Spider-Man facts and read about every exciting twist and turn in Spider-Man comics, plus secret info on all your favourite Spider-Man characters. Spider-Man: Inside the World of Your Friendly Neighbourhood Hero traces the Marvel Com..

25.16£

Supergods What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Brand: Random House

NATIONAL BESTSELLER What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men-the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie a..

23.15£

Superhero Culture Wars Politics, Marketing, and Social Justice in Marvel Comics

Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged "forced" diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most rec..

31.67£

Superwomen Gender, Power, and Representation

Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing

Winner of the 2017 Eisner Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category 2017 Prose Awards Honorable Mention, Media & Cultural Studies Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bod..

34.07£

Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation

Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing

Winner of the 2017 Eisner Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category 2017 Prose Awards Honorable Mention, Media & Cultural Studies Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bod..

140.66£

Just over 225 years ago, one of the most incredible odysseys in human history took place. 1,500 men and women were crammed aboard 11 ships and transported to the other side of the planet. They were criminals, outcasts, renegades: the scum of England..

25.09£

The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in History

Brand: ABC-CLIO

This compilation of essential information on 100 superheroes from comic book issues, various print and online references, and scholarly analyses provides readers all of the relevant material on superheroes in one place.The American Superhero: Encyc..

101.88£

The Book of Esther World English Bible Version

Brand: Word for Word Bible Comics

The comic presents every word of this old testament scripture, within its historical, cultural and geographical context. It employs a high view of scripture and is aimed at adults and readers aged 12+. The Story Intro: The opulent Persian empire is ..

14.50£

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