Comics Scholarship
- Camelot in Four Colors
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“A survey of the Arthurian legend in comic books.” Covers everything from retellings to re-imagings.
- Classics of Comic Book Advertising
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Poorly designed web site with really cool images: many old ads such as “The Insult” and those amazing Sea Monkeys. Check it out! Too bad Silly Putty doesn’t work on the web.
- Comic Art and Graffix Gallery
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A lot of great stuff here from the history of comic books, including cover images and stories from early comic books, such as Jumbo.
- Comic Art Collection
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Michigan State University library’s Special Collections division, including a list of the comics in the collection.
- Comics Research Bibliography
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Includes bibliography of articles on both scholarship and marketing.
- Comics Research Directories and Survey
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The comics scholars directory and a list of research libraries.
- Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies
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Annotated bibliographies of “book-length works about comic books and comic strips, from fannish histories to academic monographs”. One of the most useful comics scholarship pages on the net.
- Comics: A Tool of Subversion?
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From the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture. Includes a summary of (up to the time of the writing) some acts of comics censorship.
- Comix Scholars Mailing List
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“An academic forum for those involved in research, criticism and teaching related to comics art.” A cool place to be, but remember that it has a specific focus; there are other places to go to discuss who’d win.
- Detective Comics vs Bruns
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Ken Quattro, “the comics detective” posts scans of the court transcript of Detective Comics vs. Bruns Publications. That is, DC vs. Fox. Includes testimony by Will Eisner.
- Early Comics
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Early comics from 840 AD to 1929. Archive of comics images from Busch and Töpffer and many more; includes images from 1700 to 1929. Even includes early photocomics from the Dreyfuss affair.
- The Gaiman Archive
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Lots of links and interviews and stories with some connection to Neil Gaiman.
- Grand Comic-Book Database Project
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A plan to put information about all comics on-line in a searchable format. Includes an occasional search engine. Great resource.
- Hi Profile Productions
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Designed to profile “up-and-coming” hot artists. Great idea, they could use one for their graphic design. Also includes an art auction and an on-line workshop. Of real interest is a history of Black and minority comics, a listing of black artists in the industry, and a listing of black characters in comics.
- Histories of Negro Comics
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Some histories of creators of “Negro” comics, including Orrin C. Evans (All Negro Comics), Bertram A. Fitzgerald (Golden Legacy); and some others such as Malcom Ater (Commercial Comics Company). There is some really interesting material here.
- The History of Comic Books
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The History of Superhero Comics has been updated to comic books in general. Great resource for comics history buffs. Nice cover shots.
- The History of Mexican Comics
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A look at Mexican comics from 1926 to 1969.
- The Institute for Comics Studies
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“The Institute undertakes its mission through communication within the scholarly, professional, and fan communities and with the general public. The Institute holds academic conferences and brings scholars and professionals together to discuss comics in public venues such as comic book conventions; indexes scholarly and other secondary materials; promotes comics scholars and their work; coordinates and enables comics research collection development; and acts as an umbrella organization for other comics-oriented organizations, institutions, and academic programs.”
- Jewish Comics: A Select Bibliography
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Not a listing of Jewish superheroes, but a listing of presentations of Jewish individuals in comic books, from Leonard & Larry to Wonder Woman. Includes some Jack Chick tracts aimed at Jews.
- Ka-Boom!
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A dictionary of comic-book words. On historical principles, no less. Too wild to pass up, even with the ads covering the first page.
- The Language of Comics•
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Mario Saraceni’s Ph.d., the most useful part of which right now is his bibliography.
- Librarians in Comics
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A listing of librarians in comic books and strips, including lots of literacy-awareness-style books. “Can a librarian in a bat-suit save Gotham?”
- Professional Cartoonists Index
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Includes “Hogan’s Alley” as well as the Teacher’s Guide to cartooning in education.
- Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code•
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I have not yet read this; however, enough people on the comix mailing list have raved that I thought it should be included.
- A Short History of American Comic Books
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A very general overview of comics in the United States, from “Funnies on Parade” up to the 1993 publication of “Understanding Comics”.
- Stories Without Words
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Bibliography of wordless comics by Michael Rhode.
- Tegneseriemuseet
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The Danish Comics Museum. Includes CD-ROMs of Danish comics.
- VERBD
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“The title is literally ‘To See Comics’, and it’s based on my blog on comics, previously existent, called ‘To Read Comics’. In Portuguese the verbs are ‘Ver’ and ‘Ler’ so you can guess the pun and the approach of the two actions we do when flipping pages of comics…”
Translate from Portuguese
- Yesterday’s Papers
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John Adcock blogs about old comic strips and wordy photos.
