Books Available for Review

ImageTexT is currently interested in reviews of the following books. Please note that this list is by no means comprehensive or exclusive and we will accept multiple reviews of the same book. Please email us to suggest other books for review.

• Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature by Charles Hatfield
• Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions. Edited by Mike Budd and Max Kirsch. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
• Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature: An Introduction. By Maria Nikolajeva. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2005.
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, by Umberto Eco
• Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film Since World War Two, by David MacFadyen (McGill-Queen's University Press)
• The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg, by Iain Topliss (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• Walt & Skeezix: Book One, by Frank King
• Webcomics: Tools & Techniques for Digital Cartooning, by Steven Withrow and John Barber
• The New Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes, by Bob Callahan
• Chris Ware, ([Yale] Monographics Series) by Daniel Raeburn
• Anime From Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, by Susan Napier
• Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America, by Bradford W. Wright
• Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Studies in Popular Culture), Richard Reynolds
• Comics & Ideology, Matthew P. McAllister (Editor), Edward H. Sewell (Editor), Ian Gordon (Editor)
• Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation, by Giannalberto Bendazzi, Anna Taraboletti-Segre (Translator)
• Understanding Animation, by Paul Wells
• Action Chicks : New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, by Sherrie A. Inness (Editor)
• Carl Barks: Conversations (Conversations With Comic Artists) by Carl Barks, Donald Ault (Editor)
• Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde, by Esther Leslie
• Considering MAUS: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's "Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust," by Deborah R. Geis (ed.)
• The New Media Reader, by Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort (eds.)
• The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against the Counterculture, by Bob Levin. Fantagraphics Books, 2003.
• Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Progressive Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century, by Steven Heller. Phaidon Press Limited, 2003.
• Catalog of Original Comic Art, by Alvin Buenaventura. Buenaventury Gallery, 2003.
• The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove, by Gene Deitch. Fantagraphics Books, 2003.
• Black Images in the Comics: A Visual History, by Fredrik Stomberg. Fantagraphics Books, 2003.
• The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture, by Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall. Greenwood Press, 2002. (one or multiple volumes of this set)

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