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ENGL 1901: Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels

Resources for research on comics and graphic novels.

Bibliography of complementary resources

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Parga Linares, Santiago. "Proustian curiosity and the archive: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 12.5 (2021): 780-796.

Sadri, Houman. "The Return Journey in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home." The Journal of Popular Culture 53.1 (2020): 111-128.

Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Leng, Kirsten. "Readers respond to Alison Bechdel: fan letters and the emotional afterlives of Dykes to Watch Out For." Feminist Media Studies (2023): 1-14.

Bechdel, Alison, and Marny Hall. “Ordinary Insurrections: Alison Bechdel Interviewed by Marny Hall.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 15–21.

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Atchison, Christine. "Watchmen: An Exploration of Transcendence in Comics." International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 22, no. 2, 2020, pp. 229.

Prince, Michael J. Alan Moore's America: The Liberal Individual and American Identities in Watchmen

The Book of Human Insects by Osamu Tezuka

Knighton, Mary A. "“Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka's Feminist Species." Mechademia 8 (2013): 3-24.
Building Stories by Chris Ware