Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives

“This collection of essays can undoubtedly serve as a useful entry into both the fields of disability studies in general and disability in comic books in particular. … the essays manage to provide a variety of insights into genres ranging from personal memoir to superhero comics. … the collection shows the wide applicability of disability studies that could be useful not only to scholars of comics books, but also to experts of children’s literature and visual arts.” (Nikola Novaković, Libri & Liberi, Vol. 10 (1), 2021)

“Foss (Mary Washington), Gray (CUNY), and Whalen (Mary Washington) offer an ambitious cross-disciplinary collection bringing disability studies theories to bear on the burgeoning genre of graphic literature. … The work is useful for several disciplines including disability studies, graphic literature, psychology, and popular culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division Undergraduates through faculty.” (M. F. McClure, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) 

“Foss, Gray, and Whalen provide comics scholars, as well as those located in such related fields as children’s literature and visual rhetoric, the opportunity to think critically about key issues in disability studies and their particular representation in hybrid visual-verbal texts. … This collection captures the urgency of the intersection of comics and disability, and the absence of non-American comics texts suggests an opportunity for the discussion to continue developing further through various national and cultural perspectives.” (Charles Acheson, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 41 (1), January, 2017)