This list is basically list of the adaptation and convergence culture theory that is applicable specifically to comic book materials. A lot of the list touches on the cultural impact these comics have, others deal with the theories of adaptation and process in comic books. Convergence culture and adaptation studies are a big crossover area. I am interested in the way fans interact with comic books, and some of the choices are meant t reflect the audience participation side of things. This part is also covered by both adaptation studies and convergence culture.
Alaniz, Jose. Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond 2014
Averett, Paige. “The Search for Wonder Woman: An Autoethnography of Feminist Identity.” 2009
Babb, Valerie. “The Past is Never the Past: The Call and Response Between Marvel’s Black Panther and Early Black Speculative Fiction“ 2020
Ball, Jennifer L. "The Wonder of Wonder Woman." 2016
Bendis, Brian Michael. Word for Pictures 2014.
–“LTC: episode 6 - Brian Michael Bendis.” 2013. Podcast
–“Exclusive Interview: Brian Michael Bendis.” 2016
Boillat, Alain “Perspectives on Cinema and Comics: Adapting Feature Films into French-Language Comics Serials during the Post-War Years.” 2017
Brown, Jeffrey A. “Comic Book Masculinity and the New Black Superhero.” 1999
Chute, Hillary Disaster Drawn 2016
– Graphic Women 2010
– Why Comics? Harper Collins 2017
Cocca, Carolyn. “Negotiating the Third Wave of Feminism in Wonder Woman” 2013
Connors, Sean P. “Altering Perspectives: How the Implied Rear Invites Us to Rethink the Difficulty of Graphic Novels.” 2012
Cook, Roy t. “Underground and Alternative Comics,” 2017
D’Agostino, Anthony Michael. “Flesh-to-Flesh Contact”: Marvel Comics’ Rogue and the Queer Feminist Imagination” 2018
Dalbeto, L. do C. and Oliveira, A.P. “Oh My Goddess: Anthropological Thoughts On the Representation of Marvel’s Storm and the Legacy of Black Women in Comics.” 2015
D'Amore, Laura Mattoon. “Invisible Girl's Quest for Visibility: Early Second-Wave Feminism and the Comic Book Superheroine.” 2008
Diego, Maggi. “Orientalism, Gender, and Nation Defied by an Iranian Woman: Feminist Orientalism and National Identity in Satrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis 2.” 2020
Donaldson, S. Olivia. “A Comic-Book Look at Cosmopolitanism and Feminism: Let's Talk about Marjane Satrapi's Broderies.” 2018
Eisner, Will. Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist 2008
—Comics and Sequential Art, 2008
—Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative, 2008
Frangos, Mike Classon. “Liv Strömquist's Fruit of Knowledge and the Gender of Comics.” 2020
Galvan, Margaret. “Feminism Underground: The Comics Rhetoric of Lee Marrs and Roberta Gregory.” 2015
Gibson, Richard. “Graphic illustration of impairment: science fiction, Transmetropolitan and the social model of disability.” 2020.
Grady, William, “Western Comics,” 2017
Hermann, Kathryn. Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze 2020
Holmes, Martha Stoddard. “Cancer Comics: Narrating Cancer through Sequential Art.” 2021.
Inge, Thomas, “Origin of Early Comics ad Proto-Comics,” 2017
Johnson, Michael A. “Autobiographical Comics,” 2017
de Landro, Valentine. “Process for Bitch Planet Triple Feature cover,” 2021
Little, J. N. “Feminist ethical development: From wonder woman to wondering woman.” 2005
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. 1993
Miranda-Barreiro, David “From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth: Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography.” 2021
Molotiu, Andrei, “Art Comics,” 2017
Ogburn, C. “Disability in comic books and graphic narratives.” 2017
Pavlat, Eric. “Proto-Comics: The Proto-History of Comic Books Before 1933.” 1995-1996
Postema, Barbara, “Silent Comics,” 2017
Robinson, Lillian S. “Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes.” 2004
Scott, Suzanne. “The Hawkeye Initiative: Pinning Down Transformative Feminisms in Comic-Book Culture through Superhero Crossplay Fan Art.” 2021.
Shrestha, Promina, “Nepali Women in Comics.” 2020
Smith, Scott T. and Jose Alaniz. Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability 2019
Streeby, Shelley. “Heroism and Comics Form: Feminist and Queer Speculations.” 2018
Wood, Andrea. “Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women.” 2021.
Williams, Keira V. “From Oz to Amazon Island: The Popular Evolution of American Matriarchalism” 2017.