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Projections : comics and the history of twenty-first-century storytelling by Gardner, Jared
Call Number: PN6725 .G36 2012
Publication Date: 2012
The Best American Comics Criticism of the 21st Century by Schwartz, Ben; Daniel Schwartz (Editor)
Call Number: PN6725 .B47 2010
Publication Date: 2010
The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: critical essays on the form by Goggin, Joyce (Editor); Dan Hassler-Forest (Editor)
Call Number: PN6714 .R57 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Demanding Respect: the evolution of the American comic book by Paul Lopes
Call Number: PN6725 .L67 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Of Comics and Men by Gabilliet, Jean-Paul ; Bart Beaty (Translator); Nick Nguyen (Translator)
Call Number: PN6725 .G3313 2010
Publication Date: 2009
Translated from French
Comics as Philosophy by McLaughlin, Jeff (Editor)
Call Number: PN6712 .C58 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Faster than a Speeding Bullet: the rise of the graphic novel by Weiner, Stephen ; Will Eisner (Introduction by); Chris Couch (Editor)
Call Number: PN 6710 .W45 2003
Publication Date: 2004

Scholarly graphic novel & comic book collections

Virginia Commonwealth University
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
The Ohio State University
Browne Popular Culture Library
Bowling Green State University
Michigan State University
Comic Art Collection holds over 200,000 items
University of Florida
Includes the Penny and Sol Davidson Collection of early comic books
Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon
Collection of 2,085 items at the Library of Congress spans the years 1780 to 1977
Edwin and Terry Murray Comic Book Collection
Duke University
Government Comics Collection
University of Nebraska

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