A list of books and resources which deal primarily with comics in specific countries or regions of the world, including book-length, general studies on the history and criticism of comics, web sites, and more.  Individual book entries may include the book's Table of Contents, on-site reviews, printed review citations, links to on-line information, and more.

NOTE:  indicates a new or revised entry added since April 6, 2008.

Argentina

• Merino, Ana. El Cómic Hispánico [Spanish-language Comics]. Signo e imagen, 74. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2003. ISBN 8437620570.
• WebLink: La Historieta Argentina : With a chronology and a special section on Alberto Breccia .

• Lent, John A., ed. Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books. Honolulu: University of Hawaii P, 2001. 249pp. ISBN 0824824717 (cloth). Buy It!
• Lent, John A., ed. Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad and Sexy. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1999. 212pp. ISBN 0879727799 (cloth), 0879727802 (paperback).  Buy It!

Australia

• Burrows, Toby, and Grant Stone. Comics in Australia and New Zealand: The Collections, The Collectors, The Creators . New York: Haworth Press, 1994. 115 p. ISBN 1560246642 (cloth).
• Ryan, John.  Panel by Panel: A History of Australian Comics.  Stanmore, New South Wales : Cassell Australia, 1979.  223pp.
• Shiell, Anette, ed. Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s - 1990s. National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. Redhill South, Victoria, Australia: Elgua Media, 1996. ISBN 1876308125.

Belgium

• Dayez, Hughes. Le duel Tintin-Spirou. Bruxelles: Editions Luc Pire, 1997. 255pp. ISBN 2-930088-49-4 (paperback).
• Lefèvre, Pascal and Patrick Van Gompel. La nouvelle BD flammande. Berchem: Fonds flamand des Lettres, 2003. 58pp.
• Lofficier, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction: A Guide to Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic Books and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present. Foreword by Stephen R. Bissette. McFarland, 2000. 800pp. ISBN 0-7864-0596-1 (paperback). publisher's information
• Miller, Ann. 2007. Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip. Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL: Intellect Ltd. 272pp.
• WebLink: Cool French Comics : Information on French-language comics from Belgium and France.

Brazil

• Albernaz, Bia and Maurício Peltier.  Almanaque de Fanzines - O Que São e Como São . Brazil: Arte de Ler, [1999?]. 95 pp, black and white.
• Cardoso, Athos Eichler, ed. As Aventuras de Nhô-Quim & Zé Caipora.  Os Primeros Quadrinhos Brasileiros 1869-1883. Pref. by the Italian Ambassador to Brazil. Editorial Council of the Federal Senate, Brasilia, 2000.
• WebLink: CyberComix
• WebLink: Front : Web and print magazine.
• WebLink: GibIndex.com : a enciclopédia brasileira dos gibis.

Canada

• Bell, John, ed. 1986. Canuck Comics . Montreal: Matrix Books. ISBN 0-921101007.
• Bell, John. Guardians of the North : The National Superhero in Canadian Comic-Book Art . Ottawa: National Archives of Canada (Canadian Museum of Caricature), 1992. 53 pp.
• Falardeau, Mira. La Bande Dessinée au Québec . Montréal: Boréal, 1994. 125pp. ISBN 2890525392 (paperback).
• Hirsh, Michael, and Patrick Loubert. The Great Canadian Comic Books . Historical perspective by Alan Walker; designed and illustrated by Clive Smith; Afterword by Harold Town. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1971. 264 pp.
• Lent, John A., compiler. Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: An International Bibliography . Forward by Maurice Horn. Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture, Number 3. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1994. 417 pp. ISBN 0-313-28681-7 (hardcover).
• Lofficier, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction: A Guide to Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic Books and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present. Foreword by Stephen R. Bissette. McFarland, 2000. 800pp. ISBN 0-7864-0596-1 (paperback). publisher's information
• WebLink: Beyond the Funnies: The History of Comics in English Canada and Quebec / Au delà de l'humour : L'histoire de la bande dessinée au Canada anglais et au Québec: National Library of Canada/National Archives of Canada exhibit.  In English and French.
• WebLink: The Doug Wright Awards . 
• WebLink: Guardians of the North : National Library of Canada/National Archives of Canada exhibit on Canadian superheroes.  In English and French.
• WebLink: Montreal Comics Jam.
• WebLink: Munn, Bryan. The Canadian Comic Art Foundation: "Celebrating Cartoonists and Comic Art in Canada."  Including the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame.
• WebLink: We Stand on Guard for Thee : Canadian Comic Book Heroes.

China

• Manthey, J. ed.  Das Mädchen aus der Volkskommeune, Chinesische Comics .  Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1972.

Denmark

• WebLink: Komiks.dk - annual festival.

Europe

• Beaty, Bart. Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s. Studies in Book and Print Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2007. 320pp. ISBN 9780802091338 (cloth), 9780802094124 (paperback).
• Lent, John A., Lent. Comic Art of Europe through 2000: An International Bibliography. Volume I. Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture, Number 10. Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2003. 570pp. ISBN 027598219X (set); 0275982203 (hardcover - Buy It!). ISSN 10660658.
• Lent, John A., Lent. Comic Art of Europe through 2000: An International Bibliography. Volume II. Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture, Number 10. Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2003. 571-1090pp. ISBN 027598219X (set); 0275982211 (hardcover - Buy It!). ISSN 10660658.
• WebLink: European Comics on the Web

Finland

• WebLink: Sarjakuvantekijät Ry (In English: The Finnish Comics Professionals )
• WebLink: Suomen Sarjakuvaseuran Sähköiset Sivut (In English: The Finnish Comics Institute )

France

• Béra, Michel, Michel Denni, and Philippe Mellot. 1997. Trésors de la Bande Dessinée: Catalogue Encyclopedique 1997-1998. Les Éditions de L'Amateur. 768pp.
• Forsdick, Charles, Laurence Grove, and Libbie Mcquillan, eds. The Francophone Bande Dessinée. Faux Titre 265. Faux Titre S. Rodopoi, 2005. 273pp. ISBN 9042017767.  Buy It!
• Lofficier, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction: A Guide to Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic Books and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present. Foreword by Stephen R. Bissette. McFarland, 2000. 800pp. ISBN 0786405961 (paperback). publisher's information 
• Miller, Ann. 2007. Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip. Bristol, UK; Chicago, IL: Intellect Ltd. 272pp.
  
• WebLink: Cool French Comics : Information on French-language comics from Belgium and France.

Germany

• Dolle-Weinkauff, Bernd. Comics: Geschichte einer populären Literaturform in Deutschland seit 1945. Beltz-Verlag, 1990. ISBN 3-407-56521-6.
• Gasser, Christian, ed. Mutanten: Die deutschsprachige Comic-Avantgarde der 90er Jahre.  Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999. 160pp. ISBN 3-7757-0900-2 (paperback).
• Knigge, Andreas C. Fortsetzung folgt. Comic Kultur in Deutschland. Frankfurt a.M./Berlin,1986.
• Laqua, Carsten. Wie Micky unter die Nazis fiel. Walt Disney und Deutschland. Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1992.

• Wong, Wendy Siuyi. Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. 188pp. ISBN 1568982690 (paperback). Buy It!

Japan

• Allison, Anne. 1996. Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
• Amano, Masanao. 2004. Manga Design. Köln: Taschen, 2004. 576pp. ISBN 3822825913 (paperback, with DVD).
• Gravett, Paul. 2004. Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics. London: Lawrence King / New York: Harper Design International. 176pp. ISBN 1856693910 (paperback). Author's website - Buy It!
• Groensteen, Thierry. [1991?] L'Univers des Mangas: Une Introduction à la Bande Dessinée Japonaise. Casterman.
• Kinsella, Sharon. 2000. Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society . Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. Buy It!
• Lehmann, Timothy R. 2005. Manga: Masters of the Art. New York: Collins Design - Harper Collins, 2005. 255pp. ISBN 10: 0060833319, 13: 9780060833312 (paperback). Buy It!
• MacWilliams, Mark W., ed. 2008. Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
• Schodt, Frederik L. 1983. Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics .  Foreword by Osamu Tezuka. Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco: Kodansha International.
• Schodt, Frederik L. 1996. Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga.  Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge P.
• WebLink: JAI2 : The World of Frederik L. Schodt, with much information on manga.
• WebLink: Kyoto International Manga Museum, including extensive English-language information.
• WebLink: Sharon Kinsella Publications, with on-line articles on various aspects of manga and Japanese culture.

Kenya

• WebLink: Sase Sema Publications

Latin America

• Foster, David William. From Mafalda to Los Supermachos: Latin American Graphic Humor as Popular Culture. Boulder, Colo.: Lynn Rienner, 1989. 119pp. ISBN 1555871410 (cloth). Buy It!
• Lent, John A., ed. Cartooning in Latin America. Hampton Press, 2005. 396pp. ISBN 1572735600 (cloth - Buy It!), 1572735619 (paperback - Buy It!).
• Merino, Ana. El Cómic Hispánico [Spanish-language Comics]. Signo e imagen, 74. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2003. ISBN 8437620570.

Mexico

• Aurrecocecha, Juan Manuel and Armando Bartra. Puros Cuentos: La historieta en México . Vols 1, 2, and 3. Mexico: Grijalbo, 1988, 1992, 1994.
• Curiel, Fernando. Mal de ojo, iniciación a la literatura iconica. Mexico City: UNAM, 1990.
• Greene, Doyle. Mexploitation Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 192pp. ISBN 0786422017 (paperback). Buy It!
• Herner, Irene. Mitos y monitos, historietas y fotonovelas en México. México: UNAM, 1979.
• Hinds, Harold E. Jr. and Charles M. Tatum. Not Just for Children: The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. 245pp. ISBN 0313254672 (cloth). Buy It!
• Merino, Ana. El Cómic Hispánico [Spanish-language Comics]. Signo e imagen, 74. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2003. ISBN 8437620570.
• Montoya, Alberto y Ma. Antonieta Rebeil.  El carácter clasista de las fotonovelas .  Documento de trabajo, UAM, México, 1982.
• Rubenstein, Ann. Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico . Durham and London: Duke UP, 1998. 210 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2108-4 (cloth), ISBN 0822321416 (paperback).

Netherlands (Holland)

• WebLink: Nederlandse Stripgeschiedenis - or, in English: History of Dutch Comics.

New Zealand

• Burrows, Toby, and Grant Stone. Comics in Australia and New Zealand: The Collections, The Collectors, The Creators . New York: Haworth Press, 1994. 115 p. ISBN 1-56024-664-2 (cloth).
• Watson, Chris and Roy Shuker. In the Public Good? Censorship in New Zealand. Palmerston North, NZ: Dunmore Press, 1998. ISBN 0864693052.

Norway

• WebLink: Raptus:  Bergen Internasjonale tegneseriefestival / Bergen International Comics Festival.

Portugal

• WebLink: Bedeteca de Lisboa : Lisbon's comics museum.

Scandinavia / Nordic Countries

• WebLink: NordicComics.net - "Produced and updated by Nordic comics libraries, museums and associations." Information in several languages, including English.

Scotland

• WebLink: Scottish Cartoon Art Studio

Spain

• Martín, Antonio. Apuntes para una Historia de los Tebeos .  Colección Viñetas no. 1.  Barcelona: Glénat, 2000.  212 pp.  ISBN 84-8449-026-2 (paperback).
• Martín, Antonio. Historia del Comic Español: 1875-1939 . Colección Communicación Visual. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gilli, S. A., 1978. 248pp. ISBN 84-252-0899-8 (paperback).
• Martín, Antonio. Los Inventores del Comic Español, 1873-1900 .  Colección Moebius/Series Antología no. 1.  Barcelona: Editorial Planeta-DeAgostini, 2000.  128 pp.  ISBN 84-395-8621-3 (paperback).
• Merino, Ana. El Cómic Hispánico [Spanish-language Comics]. Signo e imagen, 74. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2003. ISBN 8437620570.
• On-Line Essay: Patrício, Paulo.  "Espanha – Sangue Novo" ["Spain's New Blood"]. Quadrado 3.2 (October 2000).

Switzerland

• Crivelli, Patrizia; Annette Schindler; Claudia Jerusalem; David Basler; Roli Fischbacher; Hans Keller; and Christoph Schuler, eds.  Bubbles 'n' Boxes 'n' Beyond [Strapazin 59].  Catalgue for exhibit at the Swiss Institute, NYC, USA, June 1-August 19, 2000.  Swiss Institute of New York, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, and Strapazin, 2000.  88pp.  ISBN 3-907055-39-X (paperback). 
• Gasser, Christian, ed. 1999. Mutanten: Die deutschsprachige Comic-Avantgarde der 90er Jahre. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999. 160pp. ISBN 3775709002 (paperback). 
• Weblink: Comic-Land Sweiz ["Comics Land Switzerland"]: Exhibit from Pro Helvetia. Also in français - italiano - english - polski - español - portugais - japonais
• WebLink: Swiss Comics

Tanzania

• WebLink: Bongo Toons - Cartoons and Comics in Tanzania: From the AfricaServer/Virtual Museum of Contemporary African Art & PACT (Popular Association of Cartonists in Tanzania)

United Kingdom

• Barker, Martin. A Haunt of Fears. London: Pluto Press, 1984. Rpt. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
• Bryant, Mark, and Simon Heneage, comps. Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980 . Hants, Engliand: Scholar Press, 1994. 252pp. ISBN 0-85967-976-4 (cloth). [Distributed in the USA by Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield VT.]
• [Carpenter, Kevin.]  Penny Dreadfuls and Comics: English Pictorials for Children from Victorian Times to the Present . A loan exhibit from the Library of Oldenburg University, West Germany, at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, 2 June - 2 October 1983. Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. ISBN 0-905209-47-8.
• Clark, Alan, ed. Dictionary Of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors. British Library, 1997. 300 pp. ISBN 0-7123-4521-3 (hardcover).
• Gifford, Denis.  The Complete Catalog of British Comics (Including Price Guide).  Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1985.
• Gifford, Dennis. Happy Days! A Century of Comics. [aka Happy Days! 100 Years of Comics.] London: Bloomsbury Books, 1988. London: Jupiter Books (London) Limited, 1975. 128pp. ISBN 1870630475 (hardcover). Buy It!
• Gifford, Dennis. Victorian Comics. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1976. 144pp. ISBN 0047410027 (hardcover). Buy It!
• Gravett, Paul. The 100 British Cartoonists of the Century. [exhibit catalogue.] London: Cartoon Art Trust, 2000.
• Gravett, Paul and Peter Stanbury. 2006. Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes. Aurum Press. 192pp. ISBN-10: 1845131703; ISBN-13: 9781845131708 (sc).
  
• Kibble-White, Graham. 2005. The Ultimate Book of British Comics. Allison & Busby. 384pp. ISBN-10: 0749082119; ISBN-13: 9780749082116 (hardcover).
• Low, David. British Cartoonists, Caricaturists and Comic Artists . Series: Britain in Pictures. London: William Collins, 1942.
• Reed, David. The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States, 1880-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 287pp. ISBN 0-8020-4214-7 (hardcover).
• Sennitt, Stephen. Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics.   Manchester, UK: Headpress, 1999.
• WebLink: British Comics and Story Papers from Comics UK
• WebLink: British Comics Collection and Select List of British Comics at The British Library .
• WebLink: Cartoon Art Trust - The Cartoon Museum: "The Cartoon Museum is dedicated to preserving the best of British cartoons, caricatures, comics and animation, and to establishing a museum with a gallery, archives and innovative exhibitions to make the creativity of cartoon art past and present, accessible to all for the purposes of education, research and enjoyment."
• WebLink: CartoonHub: A National Hub for British Cartoons and Caricature: "[Carries] information about cartoon collections both in the United Kingdom and beyond, and about related activities such as conferences, new publications and other activities of interest to the research community."
• WebLink: International Comic Festival: Britain's annual comic celebration.
• WebLink: Original Comics, Annuals and Newspaper Strips from The Book Palace

United States

• The Art of the Comic Strip .  With an Introductory Note by Don Denny, and Text and Catalogue by Judith O'Sullivan.  University Maryland Department of Art: University of Maryland Art Gallery, April 1-May 9, 1971.  Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution 1972-1974.  University of Maryland, 1971.
• Bails, Jerry. Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928-1999 (on-line database; essential resource)
• Bails, Jerry, and Hames Ware, eds.  Who's Who in American Comics 1 (A-F) .  ?Self-published, 1973. *P* [superceded by Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928-1999]
• Bails, Jerry, and Hames Ware, eds.  Who's Who in American Comics 2 (G-M) .  ?Self-published, 1985. [superceded by Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928-1999]
• Becker, Stephen. Comic Art in America . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
• Benton, Mike.  The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History.   Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1989.
• Berger, Arthur Asa. The Comic-Stripped American: What Dick Tracy, Blondie, Daddy Warbucks, and Charlie Brown Tell Us About Ourselves. New York: Walker and Company, 1973. Rpt. Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1974. 225 pp. ISBN 0-14-003867-1 (paperback). *P*
• Berger, Arthur Asa. Manufacturing Desire: Media, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life. New Brunswick, NJ & London: Transaction Publishers, 1996. 258pp. ISBN 1560002263 (hardcover).
• Carlin, John and Sheena Wagstaff.  The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture .  Fantagraphics Books, 1983.  74 pp. (paperback/magazine)
• Craven, Thomas, ed. Cartoon Calvalcade.
• Crawford, Hubert H.  Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books .  Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers, Inc., 1978. ISBN 0-8246-0221-8 (cloth).
• Crivelli, Patrizia; Annette Schindler; Claudia Jerusalem; David Basler; Roli Fischbacher; Hans Keller; and Christoph Schuler, eds.  Bubbles 'n' Boxes 'n' Beyond [Strapazin 59].  Catalgue for exhibit at the Swiss Institute, NYC, USA, June 1-August 19, 2000.  Swiss Institute of New York, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, and Strapazin, 2000.  88pp.  ISBN 3-907055-39-X (paperback).
• Daniels, Les. Comix: A History of Comic Books in America. New York: Bonanza Books, 1971. 198pp. ISBN 0517110377 (cloth).
• Davidson, Sol M. Culture and the Comic-Strip. diss.phil., NYU, 1959.
• DeForest , Tim. Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America. McFarland, 2004. 235pp. ISBN 0786419024 (paperback). publisher's information || Buy It!
• Duin, Steve and Mike Richardson. Comics Between the Panels . Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 1998. 504pp. ISBN 1569713448 (cloth).
• Duveau, Marc. Comics U.S.A. Paris: Albin Michel, 1975. ISBN 2226002170.
• Gabilliet, Jean-Paul. Des comics et des hommes: Histoire culturelle des comic books aux Etats-Unis. Nantes: Editions du Temps, 2005. 453+pp. ISBN 2842743091.
  
• Gifford, Denis. The American Comic Book Catalogue: The Evolutionary Era, 1884-1939. London: Mansell, 1990. 218pp. ISBN 0720119774.
• Gifford, Denis. American Comic Strip Collections.
• Glubok, Shirley. The Art of the Comic Strip. New York: Macmillan, 1979. 52 pp. ISBN 002736500X (cloth).
• Gordon, Ian. Comic Strips and Consumer Culture. Smithsonian P, 1998. 233 pp.
• Goulart, Ron. The Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips in the Thirties. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1975. ISBN 087000252X (cloth).
• Goulart, Ron. Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History. Collector's Press, 2000. 204 pp.
• Goulart, Ron. The Comic Book Reader's Companion: An A-Z Guide to Everyone's Favorite Art Form. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.
• Goulart, Ron, ed. The Encyclopedia of American Comics: From 1897 to the Present. New York and Oxford: Facts on File, 1990.
• Goulart, Ron. The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips . Holbrook, MA: Adams, 1995. ISBN 1558505933 (paperback).
• Goulart, Ron. Over 50 Years of American Comic Books. Lincolnwood, IL: Mallard Press, 1991.
• Goulart, Ron. Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books: The Definitive History from the 1890s to the 1980s. Chicago and New York: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1986. ISBN 0-8092-5045-4 (paperback).
• Harvey, Robert C. The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
• Harvey, Robert C. The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. ISBN 0-87805-612-2 (cloth), 0-87805-674-2 (paperback).
• Harvey, R. C., text. A Gallery of Rogues: Cartoonists' Self-Caricatures. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, 1998. 147pp. (cloth).
• Heer, Jeet and Kent Worcester, eds. Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 176pp. ISBN 1578066867 (cloth), 1578066875 (paperback).
• Inge, M. Thomas. Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form. Ohio State University Libraries, University Press of Mississippi, and Randolph-Macon College, 1995.
• Inge, M. Thomas. Comics as Culture . Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. ISBN 0-87805-407-3 (cloth), 0878054081 (paperback).
• Jones, Gerard. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. Basic Books, 2004. 384pp. ISBN 0465036562 (hardcover). Buy It!
• Katz, Harry L. and Sarah W. Duke. Featuring the Funnies: One Hundred Years of the Comic Strip. A Library of Congress Exhibition . Library of Congress, 1995. 24 oversized pp. No ISBN.
• Kurtzman, Harvey. From Aargh! to Zap!: Harvey Kurtzman's Visual History of the Comics . New York: Arts, 1991.
• Lagerstedt, Ilpo. Supersankarit. Ilmiö amerikkalaisessa sarjakuvassa. Helsinki: Kirjastopalvelu, 1991. ISBN 9516922732.
• Lent, John A., compiler. Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: An International Bibliography . Forward by Maurice Horn. Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture, Number 3. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1994. 417 pp. ISBN 0-313-28681-7 (hardcover).
• Lent, John A., compiler. Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States: An International Bibliography. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1994. 525 pp. ISBN 0313282110 (cloth).
• Levin, Bob. Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers & Pirates: Essays on Cartoons and Cartoonists. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, 2005. 224pp. ISBN 1560976314 (paperback). Buy It
• Lupoff, Dick, and Don Thompson, eds. All In Color For A Dime . New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1970. ISBN 0-87000-062-4.
• Marschall, Rick. American Comic Classics: A Collection of U.S. Postage Stamps . United States Postal Service, 1995.
• Masters of American Comics. Ed. John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 328pp. ISBN 030011317X (hardcover).
• McLuhan, Herbert Marshall.  The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. New York: The Vanguard P, 1951. 157pp (cloth).
• O'Brien, R. Golden Age of Comic Books: 1937-1945.
• O'Sullivan, Judith. The Great American Comic Strip: One Hundred Years of Cartoon Art . Boston: Bullfinch, 1990. 200pp. ISBN 0-8212-1754-2 (hardcover), 0-8212-1756-9 (paperback).
• Phelps, Donald.  Reading the Funnies: Essays on Comic Strips.  Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2001.  305pp. ISBN 1-56079-368-4 (paperback).
• Pustz, Matthew J. Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999. 244pp. ISBN 1-57806-200-4 (hardcover), 1-57806-201-2 (paperback).
• Reed, David. The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States, 1880-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 287pp. ISBN 0-8020-4214-7 (hardcover).
• Reynolds, Moira Davison.  Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers 1945-1980.  Jefferson, NC & London: McFarlane, 2003.  193pp.  ISBN 0-7864-1551-7 (paperback).
• Robbins, Trina. A Century of Women Cartoonists . Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993.
• Robbins, Trina. From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women's Comics From Teens to Zines .  San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999. ISBN 0-8118-2199-4 (paperback).
• Robbins, Trina.  The Great Women Cartoonists.  NY: Watson-Guptill, 2001.  150pp.  ISBN 0-8230-2170-X (paperback).
• Robbins, Trina. The Great Women Superheroes . Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1996. 210pp. ISBN 0-87816-482-0 (cloth), 0-87816-481-2 (paperback).
• Robbins, Trina, and Catherine Yronwode. Women and the Comics . No place of publication given: Eclipse Books, 1985. 127 pp. ISBN 0-913035-01-7 (cloth), 0-913035-02-5 (paperback).
• Robinson, Jerry. 1974. The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.
• Saavedra, Scott.  Flee, Puny Humans!  It's the COMIC BOOK HEAVEN Collection!  San Jose, CA: SLG, 2003.  ISBN 0-943151-66-X (hardcover).
• Savage, William W. Jr. 1990. Comic Books and America, 1945-1954, . Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Savage, William W. Jr. 1998. Commies, Cowboys, and Jungle Queens: Comic Books and America, 1945-1954. Wesleyan. 151 pp. (paperback). Rpt. Comic Books and America, 1945-1954, . Not yet seen to confirm if the book contains any additional material.
• Scott, Elaine. Funny Papers: Behind the Scenes of the Comics . Photographs by Margaret Miller. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1993. 1993. 90pp. ISBN 0-688-11575-6 (cloth).
• Scott, Randall W. 1988. Comic Books and Strips: An Information Sourcebook. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press. 152pp. ISBN 089774389X (paperback).
• Sheridan, Martin. Classic Comics and Their Creators . 1942.
• Steranko, James. The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. One . Reading, PA: Supergraphics, 1970. *P*
• Steranko, James. The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. Two . Reading, PA: Supergraphics, 1972.
• Strickler, Dave, comp. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists 1924-1995: The Complete Index . Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. 219pp.
• Thompson, Don, and Dick Lupoff, eds. The Comic-Book Book . New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974.
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