Graphic Novels, Comics, and Religion

Comic Books: Adaptations of Sacred Texts

Comic Books: Superheroes

Graphic Novels

Manga

General Bibliography

Bibliography

Arjana, Sophia Rose. Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture. Lexington Books, 2018.

Baldwin, Jennifer and Daniel White Hodge, editors. Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Lexington Books, 2022.

Brewer, H. Michael. Who Needs a Superhero?: Finding Virtue, Vice, and What’s Holy in Comics. Baker, 2004.

Brod, Harry. Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way. Free Press, 2012.

Drazen, Patrick. Holy Anime! Japan’s View of Christianity. Lanham: Hamilton Books, 2017.

Fingeroth, Danny. Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero. Continuum, 2007.

Garrett, Greg. Holy Superheroes!: Exploring Faith & Spirituality in Comic Books. Pinon Press, 2005.

Koltun-Fromm, Ken. Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020.

Lawrence, John Shelton and Robert Jewett, editors. The Myth of the American Superhero. William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2002.

Lewis, A. David. American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: the Superhero Afterlife. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Lewis, A. David and Christine Hoff Kraemer, editors. Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Continuum, 2010.

McKee, Gabriel and Roshan Abraham, editors. Theology and the DC Universe. Lexington Books, 2023.

Mills, Anthony R. American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre. Routledge, 2014.

Oropeza, B.J, editor. The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture. Peter Lang, 2006.

Reynolds, Richard. Superheroes: A Modern Mythology. University Press of Mississippi, 1992.

Saunders, Ben. Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes. Continuum, 2011.

Smith, Matthew J. and Randy Duncan, editors. “Myths, Archetypes, and Religions.” The Secret Origins of Comics Studies. Routledge, 2017.

Stevenson, Gregory, editor. Theology and the Marvel Universe. Lexington Books, 2020.

Thomas, Jolyon. Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan. The University of Hawai’i Press, 2012.

Weinstein, Simcha. Up, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero. Leviathan, 2007.