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GENERAL SITES
- Anime Web
Turnpike.
- Cartoon
Research. News, commentary, screenings, and more.
- Cartoon
World!
- Comics
Research. Contains bibliographies of comix-related scholarship.
- Classic
Comic Books.
- Comic
Book Resources.
- The
Comics Journal. Reviews, interviews, essays, etc.
- Comics
Online. Commercial site linked to over sixty comic strips.
- The
Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts. With clips, commentary,
etc.
- Friends
of Lulu. Promoting female readership and participation
in the comic book industry.
- Grrls
in the Comix. With a gallery, readings, links, and a bibliography.
- The National Cartoon Museum.
Biographical information on many of
the great cartoonists and comic book artists, and examples of
classic cartoons.
- The
Museum of Black Superheroes. Contains numerous articles,
exhibits with info on heroes, and more.
- POVonline.
An archive of the “Point of View” column from Comics
Buyers Guide.
- Sequential
Tart. A webzine dedicated to raising the awareness of women’s
influence (in comix and beyond).
- The
Toonarific Cartoon Archive. Info, episode guides, interviews,
etc.
- The
Words and Pictures Museum. “Dedicated to the collection,
preservation, study, interpretation and presentation of fine graphic
narrative and fantasy illustration.”
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SPECIFIC COMIC SITES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
[Few topics
on popular culture can be adequately researched on the web alone.
These reading suggestions are designed as beginning points for further
offline study.]
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Lefèvre, Pascal and Dierick Charles, eds. Forging a
New Medium: The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century. Brussel: Vub Brussels University Press, 1999. |
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Establishes the historical background necessary to understand
the origin and nature of the modern comic strip. Includes essays
on rise of comics in particular countries, among them England,
Spain, Germany, and the US, essays from prominent artists in
the genre, as well as a useful timeline on the development of
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McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993. |
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Very lucid, rich introduction to the history and visual and
verbal meaning making processes of comic books. The book itself
is done in brilliant comic book form. |
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Pustz, Matthew. Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
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Study of contemporary comic strip fans, from the casual to the
nearly pathologically devoted. The subtitle refers to the author’s
distinction between mainstream “fanboys” and “true
believers” devoted to alternative comix culture. |
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Wright, Bradford W. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth
Culture in America.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. |
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Offers a social history of US comic books that shows how changing
trends in comic books, from Superman’s debut in 1938 up
to the late 20th century, both reflected and contributed to
changing political and cultural values. |
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