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Asian Comics
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2015), x, 342 pp.
"As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philipp
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Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present
London: Thames & Hudson (2014), 319 pp.
"The book traces comics’ evolution up to the emergence of today's global, digital scene and the medium’s likely future. Robert Crumb and Gabrielle Bell, Jack Kirby and Alan Moore, Moebius, Yumiko Oshima and Osamu Tezuka are just a few of the hundreds of artists and writers included – making it
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Bongo Media Worlds: Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar Es Salaam
Köln: Köppe (2014), 286 pp.
"In the wake of the transformation from a socialist to a neoliberal capitalist economy, Tanzania has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of cultural production which went hand in hand with a steep rise in formal and informal media outlets. Bongo Media Worlds provides insights into the diverse a
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Creating Graphic Novels: Adapting and Marketing Stories for a Multimillion-Dollar Industry
Studio City, Calif.: Michael Wiese Productions (2014), xi, 172 pp.
"This step-by-step guide to creating a graphic novel from your story idea will teach you the essential artistic, technical, and business practices necessary for getting your graphic novel on the page and in front of readers." (Publisher description)
Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xxvii, 343 pp.
"The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
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Medien und psychische Prozesse: Wie sich Traumata und Wünsche in Medien ausdrücken und deren Entwicklung antreiben
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2013), 258 pp.
"Was treibt die Medienentwicklung an? Wie und warum prägen sich neue Medienformen aus? Christina L. Steinmann schlägt eine Perspektive vor, in der sich Traumata und Wünsche in Medien einschreiben und deren Entwicklung beeinflussen. Medien werden dabei als Ausdruck, Symptom und Auslagerungsort psy
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Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
New York et al.: Routledge (2012), xviii, 310 pp.
"Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fan
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100 dessins pour Haiti
Tournai (Belgium): Casterman; Cartooning for Peace (2010), approx. 200 pp.
"Depuis le séisme du 12 janvier 2010, l'aide internationale afflue à Haïti. Passés les premiers secours, c'est maintenant tout un pays qui doit se reconstruire. Un soutien durable est donc nécessaire pour que les Haïtiens puissent retrouver une vie normale. C'est pourquoi les dessinateurs de p
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Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle
Austin: University of Texas Press (2010), xi, 257 pp.
"Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling sto
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India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), 240 pp.
"Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the A
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Cartooning in Africa
Deep Insights
Cresskill: Hampton Press (2009), xi, 383 pp.
"This volume documents from historical and contemporary perspectives, the situations, trends and issues of cartooning in a number of African countries, and profiles the individuals, forms and phenomena that stand out. All types of cartooning are covered, including comic books, comic strips, gag and
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Popular Culture in a Globalised India
London; New York: Routledge (2009), xviii, 285 pp.
Media and Identity in Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), xvii, 333 pp.
La caricature et le dessin de presse en Afrique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 239 pp.
Historietas a diario: Las tiras cómicas argentinas de Mafalda a nuestros días
Buenos Aires: Libraria (2008), 152 pp.
Die Nase des Sultans: Karikaturen aus der Türkei = Padisahin burnu: Türkiye'den Karikatürler
Berlin; Istanbul: Dagyeli; Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayinlari (2008), 263 pp.
Comic-Analyse
Konstanz: UVK (2008), 210 pp.
Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
Key Guides
Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.
"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s
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