COMICS SCARE RETURNS Format: PB - PAPERBACK

The popularity of horror comics in the 1950s was curtailed by a suppression of popular horror stories by those concerned with juvenile delinquency and bad taste. Thirty years later, creators Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman produced popular and artful comics like Swamp Thing and The Sandman that took advantage of the new shape of American culture in the 1980s. Terrence Wandtke details the history and re-shaping of horror comics and its relevance to popular series such as Hellboy, The Goon, and The Walking Dead. The Comics Scare Returns is the fourth book published in the RIT Press Comics Studies Monograph Series.

Terrence R. Wandtke has spent over 25 years as a professor and scholar in higher education and now serves as the Professional Development Specialist at Rock Valley College.  During that time, his scholarship has focused on comic books and graphic novels with an emphasis on genre stories represented in visual and literary contexts.  His research interests also include the connections between comic books and other media forms; more particularly, he works with popular media as an intersection of artistic, corporate, and fan cultures. He is author of several monographs including The Comics Scare Returns: The Resurgence in Contemporary Horror Comics (RIT) and the editor of several collections including Robert Kirkman: Conversations (UP of Mississippi). He curated several exhibits on comic books including Graphic Scenes at Benedictine University and he currently serves as the editor of the Comics Studies Series for the Rochester Institute of Technology.