Selected Resources for Communication 220: Comic Books as Culture
Fall Semester 2005
Books | Periodicals | Web Sites
BOOKS
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Graphic novels
- Underground comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic book fans
Library of Congress Classifications (a selected list)
PN 6700 - 6790 Comic books, strips, etc., including:
PN 6710 - General works, including history
PN 6712 - Moral and religious aspects
PN 6720 - General collections
PN 6725-6728 - United States
PN 6735-6738 - Great Britain
PN 6790 .J3 - Japan
See also: our list of Books of or about Comics and Graphic Novels Shelved in Unusual Places (ie, materials not in the Main Stacks PN 6700s)
Bibliographies
Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies
Gravett, Paul. Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know. New York: Collins Design, 2005. [check availability in EZRA] — An excellent visual and textual guide to influential graphic novels and the works they influenced. A great way to get an overview of various graphic novel styles.
Locating Books in Library Catalogs
Comics Research Libraries
Michigan State University's List of Comics Research Libraries, including:
Ohio State U - Cartoon Research Library [description] [library web page]
Kent State U [description] [library web page]
Bowling Green State U - Popular Culture Lib [description] [library web page]
Michigan State U - Comic Art Collection [description] [library web page]
Indiana U - Michael E. Uslan Collection [description] [library web page]
Periodicals
- Comics Journal, 1973-
- Held at BGSU and OSU; also at Denison from 2003-
- Not indexed? Many interviews with comics authors/artists available on their website
- Image [&] Narrative
- Free online web journal. Searchable.
- ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 2004-
- Free online web journal
- Table of Contents online
- International Journal of Comic Art, 1999-
- Held at BGSU, Miami U, OSU, and U of Cincinnati
- Indexed in MLA Bibliography
- Journal of Popular Culture
- Wittenberg has v.1 to present, plus online starting in 1970.
- Indexed in ?
Indexes to periodicals for Comics Research
America: History and Life
Art Abstracts
Historical Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts
JSTOR (searchable fulltext journals!)
Modern Language Association Bibliography
** Index to Comic Book Artist and Alter Ego
Partial index; will add content throughout semester. See Dr. Smith for the magazine issues. Special thanks to Comm Dept student assistant Jamie Dougherty (Spring 2006) and Josh Cohick (Fall 2006-)for doing the data entry.
Other Useful Indexes
PsycINFO
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Collection
Locating Journals:
At Wittenberg:
- EZRA, the library catalog: Web EZRA
- See our online list of Journals the Library Has
At other Ohio academic libraries:
- OhioLINK Central Catalog (Note: you cannot usually get periodicals through OhioLINK)
Web Resources
WikiProject Comics - a subset of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Note: content is editable by anyone and should therefore be treated with special attention to possible errors.
Evaluating Web Sites
Useful Literary Web Sites
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Compiled by Ken Irwin, kirwin@wittenberg.edu.
