About the Author

Martha Kuhlman is professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Bryant University. José Alaniz is professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Reviews

Carefully edited by two specialists of comics culture and Slavic culture with a longtime interest in the margins
of Western culture, this collection on the comics culture of Central and Eastern Europe (that is the countries
that have progressively joined the EU after the fall of the Berlin Wall) is much more than an eye-opener. The
book does not only disclose a wide range of a virtually “unknown” production (and why not confess that I felt
ashamed of my own ignorance as a European scholar after reading Comics of the New Europe?), it also offers a
new insight of the very meaning of making and reading comics in cultural, economic, political and ideological
contexts that are sometimes very different from what we take for granted. Jan Baetens, IMAGE
[&] NARRATIVE, Vol. 22, No.1 (2021)

Altogether, this volume represents a very welcome and stimulating introduction to comics production in a region that has been overlooked by critics. [...] this collection does represent an intriguing and novel exploration of new areas of study for comics scholarship. The introduction makes clear that the editors “consider this book an open invitation for further research” (13). It can only be hoped that their call will find receptive ears, and that some at least of the obviously worthwhile works they discuss will also find suitable publishers in the “old” Europe or North America.Vittorio Frigerio, Paradoxa, No. 32, 2021