<p><em>Critical Approaches to Comics</em> offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more.</p><p>As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, <em>Critical Approaches to Comics</em> is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies.</p>