A Comics Studies Reader

A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship and is ideal for classroom use. The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, romance comics, and superheroes. It explores the stylistic achievements of manga, the international anti-comics campaign, and power and class in Mexican comic books and English illustrated stories. Hattie Kennedy, writing for the website Bookriot.com (4/26/17), says that "this edited collection of essays, articles, and extracts from longer books is a brilliant place to start if you want to read a range of approaches to the construction of comics."

Jeet Heer is a senior editor at the Nation who has published in a wide array of journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and VQR. Kent Worcester is the author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including C.L.R. James: A Political Biography (1996) and Silent Agitators: Cartoon Art from the Pages of New Politics (2016). They are the editors, with Charles Hatfield, of The Superhero Reader, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2013.