Free from the small press genre specialty publisher via KDP Select @
Amazon: (linkage for the lot)
Years ago, fellow MR member Blue Tyson
highly recommended Sequart's comic book literary analysis essay collections, which I've come to agree are really very nifty and Relevant To My Interests™, when a few of them popped up free, and now they're finally offering a couple more via KDP Select again
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The Devil is in the Details: Examining Matt Murdock and Daredevil, edited by Ryan K. Lindsay with a foreword by long-term Marvel editor Ralph Macchio (
Wikipedia).
For half a century, Daredevil has been an outsider and a paradox, a loner, an down-to-earth super-hero, a blind man with super-powers, and the star of some of Marvel’s most celebrated stories.
The Devil is in the Details examines both Daredevil and his alter ego, Matt Murdock, from a variety of critical perspectives. Whether it’s explorations of Daredevil’s troubled history with love, his relationship to Foggy Nelson or Spider-Man, or new takes on his classic runs, this is one book no Daredevil fan or scholar should be without.
Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan, edited by Chad Nevett, which also contains bonus interviews with series author Warren Ellis (
Wikipedia) & artist Darick Robertson (
Wikipedia).
Transmet was one of my favourite comic books for ages, and I still wish they'd do Deluxe or Absolute Edition of it, which I would snap up in a heartbeat.
Published in 1997-2002, Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan became famous for its foul-mouthed protagonist, Spider Jerusalem, and his “filthy assistants.” But it’s also a long-form comics masterpiece, a sci-fi comic that succeeded despite the odds, and an examination of journalism and politics — and how they intersect, or fail to do so. This book explores all these topics and more, from multiple points of view. It also includes interviews with both Ellis and Robertson.