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I recently looked at a PhD student's literature review for his thesis on the work of Alan Moore.
I will paste in some of the books he mentions here. The reading is angled towards Moore. I must admit, I have not read more than maybe half of these myself; but it seems a very full list.
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Martin Barker authored two important studies in the 80s; The Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (London: Pluto Press, 1984) and Comics, Ideology, Power and the Critics (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989), both cultural histories of specific episodes of comics censorship in the UK that employed participant observation alongside a dialogical critique of ideological assumptions concerning comics. In some ways Barker’s studies are a response to Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart’s How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (New York: International General, 1976), a self-explanatory indictment of cultural imperialism in Disney Comics that was in many ways a continuation of a certain kind of leftist critique of mass culture started by the Frankfurt School.
Mila Bongco: Reading Comics: Language, Culture and the Concept of the Superhero in Comic Books (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2000
Alan Moore: Comics as performance, Fiction as Scalpel (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2009), by Annalisa Di Liddo.
Mark Bernard & Carter, James Bucky Carter, ‘Alan Moore and the Graphic Novel: Confronting the Fourth Dimension’, ImageText, 1.2 (2004)
Roger Whitson, ‘Panelling Parallax: The Fearful Symmetry of William Blake and Alan Moore’, ImageText, 3.2 (2006),
Mike S. Dubose‘Holding Out for a Hero: Reaganism, Comic Book Vigilantes, and Captain American’, The Journal of Popular Culture, 40.6 (2007),
Barish Ali, ‘The Violence of Criticism: The Mutilation and Exhibition of History in From Hell’, The Journal of Popular Culture, 38.4 (2005), pp. 605-631;
James R. Kellner, V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film (Jefferson: McFarland, 2008).
Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practice of the World’s Most Popular Art Form, (New Jersey: Poorhouse Press, revised edition 1990)
Harvey, Robert C. The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996).
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
Geoff Klock, How to Read Superhero Comics and Why, (New York: Continuum Press, 2002).
Richard Reynolds, Superheroes: A Modern Mythology (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1992)
Charles Hatfield, Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press 2005).
Roger Sabin, Adult Comics: An Introduction (London: Routledge 1993), Comic, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art (London: Phaidon Press, 1996),
Bradford W. Wright Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2001).
Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1999).
Will Brooker, Batman Unmasked: Analysing a Cultural Icon (London: Continuum, 2000).
Unpopular Culture; Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, edited Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2004).
Rocco Versaci, This Book Contains Graphic Language; Comics as Literature (New York: Continuum, 2007)
Joseph Witek, Comics as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman and Harvey Pekar (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press 1989). |
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