SCHOLARLY RESOURCES IN COMICS STUDIES (sources for serious research)
- Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum @ OSU
- Comicalités: Études de culture graphique
- Comics Forum
- Comics Grid
- Comics Research Bibliography
- ComicsResearch.org
- COMIX-SCHOLARS-L (Discussion List)
- European Comic Art
- Grand Comics Database
- Image [&] Narrative
- ImageTexT
- International Association of Word and Image Studies
- International Journal of Comic Art
- Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
- Lambiek Comiclopedia
- Mechademia
- MLA Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives
- MSU Comic Art Collection
- Oviatt Library @ CSUN
- SANE: Sequential Art Narrative in Education
- Special Collections @ Oviatt
- Studies in Comics
- Transatlantica (spec. issue on comics studies)
COMICS CULTURE LINKS (comics blogs, online magazines, etc.)
- Best Comics of 2010 (best-of lists listed)
- Best Comics Of 2011 (best-of lists listed)
- Best Comics of 2012 (best-of lists listed)
- Best Comics of 2013 (best-of lists listed)
- Comic Book Resources
- Comics Alternative (podcast)
- Comics Journal
- Comics Observer
- Comics Reporter (newsblog)
- Hooded Utilitarian (blog)
- Manga Bookshelf
- Panel Borders (podcast)
- Robot 6 (blog)
- Savage Critics
- Thought Balloonists (blog)
NOTABLE COMICS SHOPS IN L.A.
COMICS STUDIES LIBRARY (a sampling of recent, mostly academic titles)
- Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, by Charles Hatfield
- Arab Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture, by Allen Douglas & Fedwa Malti-Douglas
- Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, ed. Jeet Heer & Kent Worcester
- Autobiographical Comics, by Elisabeth El Refaie
- Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation, ed. Sheena C. Howard & Ronald L. Jackson III
- Case, planche, récit, de Benoît Peeters
- Colonial Heritage of French Comics, by Mark McKinney
- Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America, by Bradford Wright
- Comic Books as History, by Joseph Witek
- El Cómic Hispánico, de Ana Merino
- Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present, by Dan Mazur & Alexander Danner
- Comics and Language, by Hannah Miodrag
- Comics and the City, ed. Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling
- Comics Art, by Paul Gravett
- Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinée in Context, by Laurence Grove
- Comics of Chris Ware, ed. David M. Ball & Martha B. Kuhlman
- Comics Studies Reader, ed. Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester
- Comics Versus Art, by Bart Beaty
- Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels, by Roger Sabin
- Contemporary Comic Book Superhero, ed. Angela Ndalianis
- Critical Approaches to Comics, ed. Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan
- Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes, by Ben Saunders
- Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic, by Joel Vessels
- Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer, by David Kunzle
- Film and Comic Books, ed. Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, and Matthew P. McAllister
- God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga, by Natsu Onoda Power
- Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, by Hillary L. Chute
- Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, by Charles Hatfield
- History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. Mark McKinney
- In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists, by Todd Hignite
- Komiks: Comic Art in Russia, by José Alaniz
- Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass, by Susan Kirtley
- Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics, by Paul Gravett
- Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century, by Scott Bukatman
- Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, by Gerard Jones
- Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books, by Jean-Paul Gabilliet
- The Origins of Comics, by Thierry Smolderen
- Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan, by Anne Allison
- Poetics of Slumberland, by Scott Bukatman
- Reading Bande Dessinee: Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip, by Ann Miller
- Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature, ed. Joyce Goggin & Dan Hassler-Forest
- Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts, ed. Paul Williams & James Lyons
- Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, by David Michaelis
- Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code, by Amy Kiste Nyberg
- The Superhero Reader, ed. Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer & Kent Worcester
- System of Comics, by Thierry Groensteen
- Teaching the Graphic Novel, ed. Stephen E. Tabachnick
- Ten-Cent Plague, by David Hadju
- This Book Contains Graphic Language, by Rocco Versaci
- Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s, by Bart Beaty
ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC BOOKS (a small sampling, 1978-)
A frankly biased and selective list of bound comics that fans and critics have been talking about for years.
- 100 Demons, by Lynda Barry
- American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
- Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, by Justin Green
- Blankets, by Craig Thompson
- Building Stories, by Chris Ware
- Alec: The Years Have Pants, by Eddie Campbell
- A Contract with God, by Will Eisner
- From Hell, by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
- Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
- Ghost World, by Daniel Clowes
- The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S., by Jaime Hernandez
- Heartbreak Soup, by Gilbert Hernandez
- Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
- I Never Liked You, by Chester Brown
- It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, by Seth
- Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware
- Maus, by Art Spiegelman
- Palestine, by Joe Sacco
- Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
- Safe Area Gorazde, by Joe Sacco
- Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- You'll Never Know, by Carol Tyler