Garry Trudeau : Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire

Kerry D. Soper
Paperback - $35.95

How a revolutionary cartoonist opened the funnies to political commentary and biting satire

The Writers

Tom Spurgeon
Paperback - $33.95

- Collected from the pages of the UTNE Award-winning magazine
- Cross-promotion to the Journal's monthly audience of over 75,000 unique web users and 10,000 print readers
- Featuring many of the most popular creators of Marvel and DC's classic ...

Comics Above Ground : How Sequential Art Affects Mainstream Media

Durwin Talon
Paperback - $33.95

Comics have had a tremendous effect on popular culture and are now being felt in other storytelling mediums. Assembled in Comics Above Ground are top comics professionals talking about their inspirations and training from the comics profession and it ...

Conan : The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Savage Barbarian

Roy Thomas
Hardcover - $39.95

Featuring character profiles, maps, art from original paperbacks, and more, this is the first and only fully illustrated guide to Robert E. Howard's epic fantasy world of Hyboria and to Conan, its greatest champion. Full color.

John Romita... and All That Jazz!

Roy Thomas
Paperback - $39.95

In this new book, "Jazzy" John Romita - the artist who made The Amazing Spider-Man Marvel's #1-selling comic book in the 1960s - talks about his life, his art and his contemporaries! Authored by former Marvel Comics editor in chief and top writer Roy ...

The All-Star Companion : Volume Two

Roy Thomas
Paperback - $41.95

This volume includes more amazing information and speculation concerning the classic All-Star Comics of 1940-1951, with never-before-seen art by Irwin Hasen, Carmine Infantino, Alex Toth, Mart Nodell, Paul Reinman, Arthur Peddy, Shelly Moldoff, Joe G ...

Disaster and Resistance : Political Comics by Seth Tobocman

Seth Tobocman
Paperback - $32.95

"A graphic revelation, an artistic and political document of enormous value in our troubled world."-Paul Buhle

"Disaster and Resistance" outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In his bold comic sty ...

The Best American Comics

Chris Ware
Hardcover - $35.95

This cutting-edge collection is just right for fans as well as those who are new to the hobby of comics. Contributors include Lynda Barry, R. and Aline Crumb, Kim Deitch, Gilbert Hernandez, Seth, and Art Spiegelman. Older teens.

The Unauthorized X-Men : SF and Comic Writers on Mutants, Prejudice, and Adamantium

Len Wein
Paperback - $29.95

Comic writers trace the X-Men series' evolution, challenge its metaphors, and draw from its truths about human nature and human society in this exploratory look at the still-timely and often-revamped classic. With chapters such as "Magneto the Jew, T ...

Art Spiegelman : Conversations

Joseph Witek
Paperback - $32.95

Thirty years of interviews covering Spiegelman's achievements as an artist, critic, educator, and art historian