Comics Studies Society annual conference: July 28–30, 2022
Conference Special: Use code OSUCOMICS at checkout for 40% off all comics studies books and graphic works through 8/31/22
- Browse Studies in Comics and Cartoons series
Edited by Jared Gardner, Charles Hatfield, and Rebecca Wanzo - Browse Latinographix series
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama - Brows New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative series
Edited by Susana M. Morris and Kinitra D. Brooks - Browse full comics studies backlist
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Examination copies are for instructors considering a book for a class. We provide digital examination copies.
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Acquires broadly in literary and cultural Studies, including comics studies and the Studies in Comics and Cartoons and New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative series.
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Recent & forthcoming scholarly titles
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Eleanor Ty, Ed.$32.95 $19.77 Paper
Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Eds.$36.95 $22.17 Paper
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Ewa Stańczyk$34.95 $20.97 Paper
Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri$99.95 $59.97 Hardcover
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States
Sara Austin$32.95 $19.77 Paper
How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins$34.95 $20.97 Paper
Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
José Alaniz $37.95 $22.77 Paper
Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Stein$34.95 $20.97 Paper
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $22.17 Paper
Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Eszter Szèp$32.95 $19.77 Paper
Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, Eds.$29.95 $17.97 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Christina Meyer$34.95 $20.97 Paper
Eisner Nominee
The Goat-Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Eddie Campbell$49.99 $29.99 Hardcover
Eisner Nominee
Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Aaron Jacob Kashtan$29.95 $17.97 Paper
Eisner Nominee
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Kate Polak$29.95 $17.97 Paper
Eisner Nominee
Recent & forthcoming trade titles
Con Papá - With Papá
Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and
Illustrated by Nicky Rodriguez$14.95 $8.97 Hardcover
Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie
Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and
Illustrated by Chris Escobar$9.95 $5.97 Paper
United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel
Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren$19.95 $11.97 Paper
The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie
Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and
Illustrated by Chris Escobar$9.95 $5.97 Paper
A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber
Michael J. Rosen, with contributions from Ian Frazier, Seymour Chwast, Liza Donnelly, Michael Maslin, and Rosemary Thurber$29.95 $17.97 Paper
Drawing on Anger: Portraits of U.S. Hypocrisy
Eric J. García$18.95 $11.37 Paper
Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life
Alberto Ledesma$17.95 $10.77 Paper
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
We proudly publish Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, edited by Qiana Whitted. Inks features scholarly research on sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning. The journal seeks to bring together scholarly essays, archival materials, and insights and discoveries from leading comics professionals. Inks highlights scholarship from a variety of disciplines and invites essays on all periods of comic history, as well as considering both a US or an international comics focus.
Read an interview with editor Qiana Whitted
Questions about our journals publishing program? Contact journals manager Emily Taylor