Delany's list of "serious criticism of comics"
 
Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art
Dorfman and Mattelart's How to Read Donald Duck
Martin Barker's Comics, Ideology, Power, and the Critics
Walter and Bissett's Comicbook Rebels
Witek's Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar
Umberto Eco's "The Myth of Superman" (1960)
McCloud
 
Delany's own comic book criticism can be found in Silent Interviews and Shorter Views

> from Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (2009), Carl Freedman, ed.

> tagged with #to_read, #power, #ideology, #comics

> created May 20, 2025 at 10:00:08 AM

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