Roger Sabin Explained

Roger Sabin (born 1961) is an English writer about comics and lecturer at Central St. Martins.^[1]

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.^[2]

Bibliography

Books

• Adult Comics: An Introduction (Taylor & Francis, 1993,, Routledge, 2005,)
• Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art (Phaidon, 1996,)
• The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth (University Press of Mississippi, 1996,)
• The Movie Book: An A-Z guide to 500 landmark individuals working in film (Phaidon, 1999,)
• Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk (Routledge, 1999,)
• Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics from 1976 to the Present Day (Slab-O-Concrete, 2000,)
• Cop Shows: A Critical History of Police Dramas on Television (McFarland & Co Inc, 2015,)

Papers

• "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. .
• "Ally Sloper: The First Comics Superstar?", Image & Narrative #7, October 2003
• "Comics", in Daniele Albertazzi & Paul Cobley (Eds.), The Media: An Introduction (3rd ed.), pp. 77–87. Harlow: Longman, 2010. .

Notes and References

1. http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/people/teaching-staff/culture-and-enterprise/dr-roger-sabin/ Central St. Martins' staff profiles
2. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/league-extraordinary-gentlemen-jamilti-humbug Movies don't move me