Roger Sabin (born 1961) is an English writer about comics and lecturer at Central St. Martins.[ Central St. Martins' staff profiles]
Work
Sabin is best known for his book
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, May 10, 2009]
Bibliography
Books
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Adult Comics: An Introduction (Taylor & Francis, 1993, , Routledge, 2005, )
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Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art (Phaidon Press, 1996, )
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The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth (University Press of Mississippi, 1996, )
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The Movie Book: An A-Z guide to 500 landmark individuals working in film (Phaidon Press, 1999, )
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Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk (Routledge, 1999, )
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Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics from 1976 to the Present Day (Slab-O-Concrete, 2000, )
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Cop Shows: A Critical History of Police Dramas on Television (McFarland & Co Inc, 2015, )
Papers
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" 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. .
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" Ally Sloper: The First Comics Superstar?", Image & Narrative #7, October 2003
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"Comics", in Daniele Albertazzi & Paul Cobley (Eds.), The Media: An Introduction (3rd ed.), pp. 77–87. Harlow: Longman, 2010. .
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