Comics

Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel

Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons

Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History

The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History

Art Spiegelman: Conversations

Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans

Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity

Carl Barks: Conversations

Charles M. Schulz: Conversations

Chuck Jones: Conversations

Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers

Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Johnson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar

Comics as Culture

Comics as Philosophy

A Comics Studies Reader

The Comics

Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer

Film and Comic Books

Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture

Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire

God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

Harvey Pekar: Conversations

A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign

History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters

The Language of Comics: Word and Image

Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks

Living Life inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation

Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire

The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors

Milton Caniff: Conversations

Mort Walker: Conversations

Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books

R. Crumb: Conversations

Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips

Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code

Stan Lee: Conversations

Stepping into the Picture: Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology

The System of Comics

¡Viva la historieta!: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

Walt Disney: Conversations

Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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