Roger Sabin is an English writer about
comics and lecturer at
Central St. Martins in
London
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,
England
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.
Work
Sabin is best known for his books ''Adult Comics'' which has gone through a number of editions, remaining in print for 20 years and is the standard academic work on the history of the comic book form, and ''Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art'' a cultural history of comics for both popular and scholarly audiences. He has also written newspaper articles on the topic of comics, film and punk culture.
Movies don't move me
''The Observer
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'', May 10, 2009
Bibliography
Books
*''Adult Comics: An Introduction'' (Taylor & Francis
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, 1993, , Routledge
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, 2005, )
*''Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art'' ( Phaidon, 1996, )
*''The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth'' (University Press of Mississippi
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Universities
*Alcorn State University
*Delta State University
* Jackson State University
*Mississippi State U ...
, 1996, )
*''The Movie Book: An A-Z guide to 500 landmark individuals working in film'' ( Phaidon, 1999, )
*''Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk'' (Routledge, 1999, )
*''Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics from 1976 to the Present Day'' (Slab-O-Concrete
Slab-O-Concrete Productions was a British mail order distributor and publisher, founded by Peter Pavement, Dave Hanna, Emma Copsey, and Chris Tappenden; operating mostly in Brighton and Hove during the 1990s. Initially selling British small press ...
, 2000, )
*''Cop Shows: A Critical History of Police Dramas on Television'' (McFarland & Co Inc McFarland may refer to:
People
* McFarland (surname)
Places in the United States
* McFarland, California, a city
* McFarland, Kansas, a city
* McFarland, Missouri, a ghost town
*McFarland, Wisconsin, a village
Other uses
* USS ''McFarland'' (DD- ...
, 2015, )
Papers
Crisis in Modern American and British Comics, and the Possibilities of the Internet as a Solution
, in Anne Magnussen & Hans-Christian Christiansen (Eds.), ''Comics & Culture: Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics'', pp. 43–58. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000. .
, ''Image & Narrative'' #7, October 2003
*"Comics", in Daniele Albertazzi & Paul Cobley (Eds.), ''The Media: An Introduction'' (3rd ed.), pp. 77–87. Harlow: Longman, 2010. .
Notes
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English writers
Comics critics
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