...Danielle Colbert-Lewis First and foremost, the Encyclopedia of Black Comics is eye-catching, the cover looks like a comic book cover. The entries are organized alphabetically by last name. Each entry is about a page to a page and a half in length and includes a sidebar...

... Cathy Leogrande’s essay on V for Vendetta and Adam Capitanio’s essay on Persepolis to be enjoyable. It would be a worthy addition to any library’s reference shelves. This is probably reflective of the market forces dictating the comics market, but there are other great creators who have...

...Michelle Breckon The database itself does a fantastic job at providing the user with access to Disney comics. Each of the metadata fields can be searched, so it is easy to find a comic in a desired area. There are also several good help pages about indexing on the site to guide the user...

...Lorelei Hoover ComicBookdb.com: The Comic Book Database ComicBookdb.com 2005- Gratis © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Books Comics Electronic media Comic book-based blockbusters like Ironman 3, Man of Steel...

...Michael Hughes Also included are nearly 200 pages of appendices: an index of syndicates; another of authors and their cartoons; an extensive list of published comics collections; and a title cross‐reference to help researchers track down elusive comics published under multiple or ever‐changing...

...Lesley S.J. Farmer As Alexander Street Press states on their splash page: “Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Beginning with the first underground comix...

...Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic The history of comics can be traced across the centuries from pre‐historic cave paintings, to Egyptian hieroglyphics, to Medieval and Renaissance story art, to illustrated books and manuscripts, through to the modern graphic novel. Telling a tale through sequential...