"Comics and Pop Culture tackles one of the most topical issues in media studies today: the relationship of film, comic books, and other graphic arts. The collection considers this vital nexus from a multitude of angles, looking not only at movies derived from comics but also at graphic adaptations of film and at works conceived simultaneously for the screen and the page. For scholars working in both film and graphic arts, this volume will undoubtedly be an important collection."
~Donna Kornhaber, University of Texas at Austin, author of Wes Anderson: A Collector's Cinema
"The volume is divided into highly meaningful sections so that the relationship between film and comic books is beautifully historicized and contextualized and so that cornerstone texts and debates are raised and illuminated. It considers craft, storytelling, transmedia, and ideological and political concerns and intersections in exciting and challenging ways. It is one of the very first volumes to offer such a comprehensive account of comic books and cinema set within a broad interdisciplinary framework of "culture."
~Sean Redmond, Deakin University, coeditor of Endangering Science Fiction Film
"This is an indispensable contribution to scholarship on comic books, film, and the synergetic nature of adaptation."
~CHOICE
"A rich group of essays that represent diverse academic fields, including technoculture, film studies, theater, feminist studies, popular culture, and queer studies."
~New Books in Film
"[Comics and Pop Culture’s] 19 contributors deftly sidestep the ‘Are superhero movies cinema?’ debate – which usually leads to pointless semantic hair-splitting – and instead focus on diverse examples (from American Splendor, to Modesty Blaise and Scott Pilgrim) to illustrate the two mediums’ complex intersections."
~Film International
"Grant and Henderson have collected a fascinating and novel group of essays that challenge conventional notions of adaptation and raise interesting questions for the future of adaptation studies...The variety of subject matter makes this a wonderful read for those interested in comics, film, pop culture, or adaptation theory."
~Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
"Comics and Pop Culture is an unapologetic celebration of the historical, cultural, and processual affect of comics and film by academics who are fans of the subjects of which they write…it provides a wonderful start to a conversation that other scholars may pick up to investigate in other ways. In that aspect, it proves itself to be a valuable resource for the ongoing scholarship around the things we love to study: comics, film, and pop culture."
~Popular Culture Studies Journal