Matthew Pustz is the author of Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers. He has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa and currently teaches history and American Studies at a variety of schools in the Boston area.
In all cases, the essays...provide rich historical background information that is invaluable. Comics and graphic novels have been in some sense stuck in the English classroom for a long time, and [this is an] important book in terms of taking the field into new territory -- Joseph Cambell, UNC Charlotte * Children's Literature Association Quarterly * The book will be most rewarding for those interested in specific comic books and historical issues as they are covered in individual essays…I very much appreciate the fact that it covers a range of intriguing primary sources and presents a series of valuable case studies, all of which will surely encourage further historical investigations of comic books. -- Daniel Stein, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany * Transformative Works and Cultures *