LibGuides: W101: Philosophy Through Comics: Internet Resources

News and Culture

The Beat: Comics Culture
A daily news blog of comics news, reviews, and information.
New York Times: Graphic Novels
Includes news, reviews, and profiles. Articles published irregularly.

Abrams ComicArts
Publishes graphic novels and illustrated books about the creators and the history of comics art, animation, and cartoons.
Boom! Studios
Dark Horse Comics
DC Comics
Drawn & Quarterly
Book-lovers laud D+Q for creating elegant objects that transcend the boundaries of books and comics.
Fantagraphics
A leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature.
IDW Publishing
Image Comics
Marvel

The Grand Comics Database (GCD)
An ongoing international project to build a database of comic book information that users can contribute to. It's goal is to "contain data for every comic book ever published in every country around the planet."
CBDB.com
The first goal of this project is to catalog every comic, graphic novel, manga, creator, character and anything else that could relate to the field of comics.
Digital Comic Museum
Provides free access to hundreds of pre-1959 public-domain comic books, with high-quality scans.
Comic Book Plus
Golden and Silver Age comic books freely available to read and download. Also includes comic strips and pulp fiction.

Bayeux Museum
Images & information about the Bayeux Tapestry.
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Link to the museum's digital exhibits to find images, information, and bibliographies on comics and cartoons in their collections.
The Cartoon Bank
A searchable index of The New Yorker cartoons.
Library of Congress: Political Cartoons
Teacher resources and primary source documents for political cartoons.
Webcomics Web Archive
This collection focuses on comics created specifically for the web and supplements the Library of Congress’ extensive holdings in comic books, graphic novels, and original comic art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Over 400,000 collection records from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

100 Best Comics & Graphic Novels
From NPR -- readers' choice for the top 100 best comics and graphic novels.
50 Essential Graphic Novels
From Abe Books. A list of 50 must read graphic novels. Includes a range of genres and subjects.
10 Essential Manga That Should Belong in Every Comic Collection
From Paste Magazine, a list of top Manga, or Japanese comic books.