Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge Advances in Comics Studies promotes outstanding research on comics and graphic novels from communication theory, rhetorical theory and media studies perspectives. Additionally, the series aims to bring European, Asian, African, and Latin American comics scholarship to the English speaking world. The series includes monographs and themed anthologies. Comics Studies is a recently established and rapidly evolving field with much exciting research still to be done, and Routledge Advances in Comics Studies is dedicated to furthering the understanding of comics as an art form and a medium of communication.
Comics Beyond Text and Image: On the Substance of Visual Narration
1st Edition
By Benjamin Fraser
August 08, 2025
Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as “bodies,” exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality. The book centers on the metaphor of the comics body as a way of opening up our understandings of what comics do. It ...
The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative
1st Edition
Edited
By Xavier Dapena, Joanne Britland
April 14, 2025
In a spirit of community and collective action, this volume offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements. Developed during the critical years of the COVID-19 ...
Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics
1st Edition
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By Pedro Moura
December 18, 2024
This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly. An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and ...
Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
1st Edition
By Isabelle Licari-Guillaume
October 08, 2024
This book explores the so-called "British Invasion" of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s. Focusing on British creators within Vertigo, this study traces the evolution of the line from its creation...
Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis
1st Edition
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By María Porras Sánchez, Gerardo Vilches
October 07, 2024
This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the ...
Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter
1st Edition
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By John Darowski, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
August 26, 2024
This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space. Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, ...
Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure
1st Edition
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By Jamie Brassett, Richard Reynolds
January 29, 2024
Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book opens up discussions that highlight different approaches to ‘the creative excess of being’ as expressed ...
Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
1st Edition
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By Nhora Lucía Serrano
May 31, 2023
Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Nhora Lucía ...
Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga
1st Edition
By Peter Admirand
December 30, 2022
Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of ...