The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader

Explores the exemplary trove of LGBTQ+ comics that coalesced in the underground and alternative comix scenes of the mid-1960s and in the decades after. Through insightful essays and interviews with leading comics figures, contributors illuminate the critical opportunities, current interactions, and future directions of these comics.

Alison Halsall is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is editor of White Rose and the Red, and her work has been published in such edited volumes and journals as Cultural and Creative Industries of Childhood and Youth ; Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment ; and INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society . She specializes in Victorian and modernist literatures, with a particular emphasis on visual cultures, which includes the study of paintings and illustrations, contemporary film, comics, and graphic narratives.

Jonathan Warren is associate professor and former chair in the English Department at York University. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw , and his work has been published in such journals as the Henry James Review, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and the American Century . A specialist in literary modernism and its precursors, including especially American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he has taught York’s massively popular undergraduate and graduate courses in comics since inventing them two decades ago.