Comic Arts

Created by Librarian, Pamela Jackson, this guide organizes selected comics by themes and topics that may be of most use in the higher education curriculum. It is intended to give student researchers and faculty a starting point to explore how topics covered in the classroom are represented in sequential art.

Our mission is to facilitate access to comics that contain queer representation. This includes: Comics published in print and on the web; Comics from major publishers, independent publishers, and self-published comics; Comics for children, teens, and adults, as well as all-ages comics; Representation from across the LGBTQIA spectrum, as well as intersectional representation.

An online annotated bibliography. Here you will find a collection of 46 graphic novels that focus on a shared topic: mental illness. Because this is an annotated bibliography, you will also find book summaries, analysis, and recommendations.

Includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information useful to the comic-book reader, fan, collector, and scholar.

American Indians in DC Comics from 1938-1975. The National Indian Project is an online database of American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Pacific Islander representations in comic books. The National Indian Project is designed as a tool to aid scholars and academics by centrally locating a reference list of all Native American representations in National Comics (Known presently as DC Comics) between the creation of Detective Comics, Inc. in 1937 and the beginnings of the modern corporate comic era in the late 1970s.

Fan-created encyclopedia of toons, defined as "a cartoon or cartoon character — "cartoon" referring not just to the animated kind, but also to such "still cartoons" as comic books, newspaper strips, magazine cartoons, etc."

The Planetary Republic of Comics knowledge portal aims to capture this history of global cross-pollination that includes the physical transmigration of artists and their styles and worldviews from one place (region or country) to another. Its content makes visible those creators from around the world who have chosen to use visual and verbal devices to give shape to stories (fiction and non-fiction) that make up our planetary republic of comics. Planetary Republic of Comics serves as a living, breathing space that provides accessible scholarly knowledge about comic books and graphic nonfiction from around the world.

A list of book-length studies on the history and criticism of comics and a variety of categories. Individual book entries may include the book's Table of Contents, on-site reviews, printed review citations, links to on-line information, and more.