M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of the Humanities, Randolph Macon College, pioneer in the field of popular culture and comics studies, author of over a hundred essays on comics, popular culture, and American culture, and author, editor or co-editor of over twenty books including:

As author:
Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form. (1995)

Comics as Culture. (1990)

As editor:
Black American Writers: Bibliographical essays (1978)

Charles M. Schulz: Interviews (2000)

Conversations with William Faulkner (1999)

Dark Laughter: Satiric Art of Oliver W. Harrington (1993)

Handbook of American Popular Culture (1978, 1989), to be re-released in four massive volumes as The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture in October 2002

Naming the Rose: Essays on Eco's The Name of the Rose (1988)

As co-editor:
American Women Writers: Bibliographical Essays (1983)