The Graphic Novel

Jaime Hernandez, The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. Fantagraphics, 2007.

Mike Mignola, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, volume 1. Dark Horse, 2004.

Will Eisner, A Contract with God. W. W. Norton, first edition [1978].

Moonshot, volume 1. AH Comics, 2015; new edition, Inhabit Education Books, 2021.

Matt Fraction and David Aja, Hawkeye: The Saga of Barton & Bishop. Marvel, 2021.

Seth, The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists. Drawn & Quarterly, 2011.

Mariko Tamaki, Steve Pugh and Carlos M. Mangual, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass. DC Comics, 2019.

Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, volume 1. Oni Press, 2004.

NM Stevenson, Nimona. HarperTeen, 2015.

Julie Doucet, My New York Diary, 2nd ed. Drawn & Quarterly, 2004. Explicitly optional in Fall 2026 if obtainable.

Christopher González, “Turf, Tags, and Territory: Spatiality in Jaime Hernandez’s ‘Vida Loca: The Death of Speedy Ortiz,’” ImageTexT 7.1.

Jessica Jones, “Spatializing Sexuality in Jaime Hernandez’s Locas,” Aztlan 1 (2009), pp. 35–64.

Scott Bukatman, “Sculpture, Stasis, the Comics, and Hellboy,” Critical Inquiry 40.3 (2014), pp. 104–117.

Jonathan Sterne, “Formatted to Fit Your Screen,” Flow.Journal (2012).

Paul Williams, introduction to Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics. Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 1–25.

Derek Parker Royal, “Sequential Sketches of Ethnic Identity: Will Eisner’s ‘A Contract with God’ as Graphic Cycle,” College Literature (2011), pp. 150–167.

Bart Beaty, “What if Comics Were Art? Defining a Comics Art World,” Comics versus Art. University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 17–48.

Kyle Bladow, “Framing Storytelling: Indigenous Graphic Narratives,” Journal of Popular Culture 52.1 (2019), pp. 35–52.

Camille Callison and Candida Rifkind, “Introduction: Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography,” Jeunesse 11.1 (2019), pp. 139–155.

Matt Fraction, “How to Write Hawkeye,” in Brian Michael Bendis, Words for Pictures. Watson-Guptill, 2014, pp. 50–63.

Michel Foucault, “What Is an Author?,” Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 113–138.

Svetlana Boym, “Nostalgia and Its Discontents,” Hedgehog Review (2007), pp. 7–18.

Daniel Marrone, “Seth’s Ironic Identities: Forging Canadian History,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 43.1 (2016), pp. 166–179.

Seth, “Creating a Personal Vernacular Canadian Style,” DA 69 (2011), pp. 3–58.

J. Andrew Deman, “‘Oh Well’: My New York Diary, Autographics, and the Depiction of Female Sexuality in Comics,” Canadian Graphic. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016, pp. 75–98.

Catriona MacLeod, “Sex and Death in Quebec: Female AutobioBD and Julie Doucet’s Changements d’adresses,” European Comic Art 5.1 (2012), pp. 57–70.

Lorraine York, “‘A Good Place Where to Be’: Un-placing Mobilities in Julie Doucet’s My New York Diary,” Inks 4.3 (2020), pp. 309–326.

Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo, “Not by a White Man?,” The Greatest Comic Book of All Time. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Sam Langsdale, “Breaking Glass: Reclaiming Harley Quinn’s Past to Determine Her Feminist Future,” MAI (2023).

Theresa Tensuan, “Difference,” in Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (eds.), Comics Studies: A Guidebook. Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 138–150.

Ira Wagman and Ezra Winton, “Canadian Cultural Policy in the Age of Media Abundance,” in Leslie Regan Shade (ed.), Mediascapes, 3rd ed. Nelson, 2010, pp. 61–77.

Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, “The New Languages,” Chicago Review 10.1 (1956), pp. 46–52.

Suzanne Scott, “The Trouble with Transmediation,” Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media. University of Texas Press, 2017, pp. 267–274.

Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey, “Understanding Panel and Page Layouts,” The Graphic Novel: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 103–133.