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When searching for specific comics or comics studies, we recommend conducting keyword, author, or title searches. Beginning your search on the advanced search page of the Copley Library online catalog will allow you to filter your search by specific fields. For general browsing of comics and comics studies categories, the below subject headings may be of use. You also can filter your search by subject heading in the advanced search options.
By Format
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Comic strips
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Comics
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Manga (Comic books, strips, etc.)
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Webcomics
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Newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Comics
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Graphic Novels
By Genre
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Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
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Documentary comic books, strips, etc
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Erotic comic books, strips, etc
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Superhero comic books, strips, etc
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Superheroes -- United States
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Underground comic books, strips, etc
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Webcomics
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Western comic books, strips, etc
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Autobiographical comics
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Graphic medicine (Comics)
By Country of Origin/Setting of Narrative
- "Country"--Comic books, strips, etc
By Character
- "Fictitious character"-- Comic books, strips, etc
Comics Studies (Topical)
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Moral and ethical aspects comic books, strips, etc
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Social issue comic books, strips, etc
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Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
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Genderqueer comics
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Visual perception--Comic books, strips, etc. Knowledge,
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Theory of--Comic books, strips, etc. Imagery (Psychology)
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Comic books, strips, etc., in education
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Comic books, strips, etc--Study and teaching.
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Visual perception--Comic books, strips, etc.
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Knowledge, Theory of--Comic books, strips, etc.
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Imagery (Psychology)--Comic books, strips, etc.
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Communication--Methodology--Comic books, strips, etc.
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Female friendship--Comic books, strips, etc.
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Politics and culture--Egypt--Comic books, strips, etc.
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Culture conflict--Comic books, strips, etc.
Reference Books on Comics & Graphic Novels
Keywords for Comics Studies by Call Number: PN6707 .K49 2021ISBN: 9781479816682Publication Date: 2021-06-08Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas.
Comics by Call Number: PN6710 .M3323 2014ISBN: 9780500290965Publication Date: 2014-06-17The story begins in 1968, a key year in comics' shift from being driven by commercial potential into a means of self-expression respected not just as entertainment but also as art. 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 unprecedented in its global reach. The broad reach of Comics extends to artists, styles and movements, spanning Marvel and DC superheroes; the Underground movement and manga powerhouse Osamu Tezuka; politically charged Italian fumetti and sexually charged ladies' manga; the Francophone technique of ligne claire; sci-fi; Métal Hurlant; the pioneering Japanese alternative journal Garo; the graphic memoir and the graphic novel; and, finally, the moment comics made the jump from page to web page. Featuring the best-known artists and writers - from Jack Kirby, Hergé and Moebius to Katsuhiro Otomo, Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore - Comics also introduces readers to some creators they may not yet have encountered, such as Andrea Pazienza, the Fort Thunder collective and Fabrice Neaud.
Encyclopedia of weird detectives : supernatural and paranormal elements in novels, pulps, comics, film, television, games and other media by Call Number: PN3448.D4 .G74 2019ISBN: 9781476638379Publication Date: 2019
Film & Media
- Oldŭ boi = Oldboy byCall Number: PN1997.2 .O438 2005Publication Date: 2005After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Daesu is released and sets out to find his abductors. Based on the comics by Tsuchiya Garon and Minegishi Nobuaki.
- Persepolis byCall Number: PN1997.F7 P47 2008Publication Date: 2008In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study. This change proves an equally difficult trial for Marji as she finds herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs
- American splendor byCall Number: PN1995.9.C55 A54 2003Publication Date: 2003Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller. Based on the comic book series "American splendor" by Harvey Pekar and "Our cancer year" by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner.
- V for vendetta byCall Number: PN1997.U5 V46 2006Publication Date: 2006Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself. She becomes his ally in his plan to bring freedom and justice to a cruel and corrupt society. Based on the graphic novel illustrated by David Lloyd.