James Mason (1909–1984) was born to be an actor. He just didn’t know it. A Cambridge graduate with a degree in architecture, he arrived in London at a time when nothing was being built. With few prospects, he ...

Conversations with Denys Cowan highlights the remarkable career of an artist who has left an indelible mark on comics, animation, and music. From his start at age fourteen as an assistant to Rich Buckler, ...

After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968–2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the respect of major film industry figures, and became t ...

Dylan in Cincinnati takes a fresh approach to Bob Dylan’s performance art by asking what happens when we focus on a single city across six decades.

When we think of Dylan in concert, we imagine Newport, ...

In 1988, a thirteen-year-old girl named Meko arrived in Milwaukee as a refugee from Thailand. Not long after, she met Jeffrey Dahmer—the notorious serial killer and sex offender who, between 1978 and 1 ...

Contributions by Karine Abadie, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jan Baetens, Paul Fisher Davies, Brian Fies, Meags Fitzgerald, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Mélanie Leclerc, Nancy Pedri, Giada Peterle, Barbara Postema, V ...

Flixcomix: Comics Aesthetics in Film reorients the longstanding conversation between comics and cinema by examining film through the lens of comics studies. Rather than relying on film theory to define ...

Contributions by Rudyard J. Alcocer, Christopher L. Ballengee, Lázaro J. González, Koby Bryan Hansen, Kim Johnson, Shweta Kishore, Sinah Theres Kloß, Gabriela Martínez, Thomas Matusiak, María Fernanda Miño ...

Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the futures of Latinx youth are predetermined. While systemic inequities persist, author ...

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine follows A. David Lewis’s unique scholarly journey through graphic religion and graphic medicine, exploring how comics intersect with healthcare, c ...