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"If teaching a class on
comic books or even teaching a specific graphic novel in your
class, this is an excellent book to facilitate your teaching."
--Michael Niederhausen, The Journal of Popular Culture
"The Power of
Comics provides a solid introduction to comics with a distinct educational perspective that will hopefully become a standard
text for students to expand their awareness of comics in our culture."
--David A. Beronä, The International Journal of Comic Art
"The Power of Comics represents a major step forward in popular-culture scholarship
. . . it's a splendid, wonderfully structured, intelligently argued, absolutely essential work."
--Bill Jones, author of Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History
"As a textbook, it succeeds in content, scope, and execution. The chapters are well laid out, have thoughtful
questions at their ends, and several chapters end with very practical examples of analysis that serve as models for students.
Chapters also reference a broad range of experts . . . which further validates breadth and depth of this growing scholarship.
. . . Overall
. . . the book—including the theory chapters—is reasonably good for a 'first textbook on comics,'
and I would imagine it will fast become a standard text for those sorts of classes.”
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