Academic Publications

2026               

My (Business) Date with an Editor: An Interview with Barbara Friedlander; Journal of Comics and Culture; Pace University, forthcoming 2026

2025               

The Power to Change: Transformation in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; Transformative Scenes: Metamorphosis and Popular Culture and Toyetic Television: A Companion; Peter Lang, forthcoming 2025

2025               

To the Goth-mobile!: Batman and the Gothic; Ages of Batman, MacFarland Press; forthcoming 2025

2025               

The X-Men’s First (Almost) Twenty-Five Years on Television: Mutating into an Animated Hit; X-Men adaptations, MacFarland Press; forthcoming 2025

2026               

Thoughts as a Creator and as a Fan: Points of View from the Other Side of the Convention Table, Part I – Comic Pros Article; International Journal of Comic Art 27: 2, forthcoming 2025 or 2026

2025               

Carmilla and Vampirella: Sisters, Cousins, or Coincidence?; International Journal of Comic Art 26:2, Fall/Winter 2024; 381-398 (printed June 2025)

2025               

Thoughts as a Creator and as a Fan: Points of View from the Other Side of the Convention Table, Part II – Interview with Prentis Rollins; Journal of Comics and Culture, Vol. 9, Fall 2024; Pace University; 119-132 (printed April 2025)

2024               

Royal Archetypes and Comic Book Characters: An Interview with Al Milgrom; The Monarch and the (Non-)Human in Literature and Cinema: Western and Global Perspectives; Routledge; 138-170

2024               

Royalty and Heroism in Comic Books: Interviews with Gerry Conway, Don Glut, Bob McLeod, Walt Simonson and Louise Simonson; The Monarch and the (Non-)Human in Literature and Cinema: Western and Global Perspectives; Routledge; 171-189

2023               

Captain Marvel: Finding, Losing, and Regaining Family; International Journal of Comic Art 25:2, Fall/Winter 2023; 406-440

2023               

Trans-Pacific Influences in the Development of Early 20th and 21st Century Manga; Cross-Cultural Influences between Japanese and American Pop Cultures: Powers of Pop, Cambridge Scholars Press, June 2023; 336-362

2022               

Platinum and Early Golden Age Comics: Comics as Literary Magazines in the 1930s and 1940s; The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine, Routledge; 365-363

2021               

Adapting Superman: Building a Mythos; Adapting Superman: Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel, MacFarland Press; 41-56

2020               

The Secret Origin of the Black Panther; The Ages of the Black Panther: Essays on the King of Wakanda in Comic Books, MacFarland Press; 5-12

2019               

Science Fiction Influences in the Silver Age Flash; The Ages of the Flash: Essays on the Fastest Man Alive; MacFarland Press; 27-37

2019               

Flowers in the Attic: The Elderly as Monster; Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging; MacFarland Press; 233-242

2016               

Science Fiction in G.I. Joe: The Movie: Its Influence, Origin, Introduction and Development; Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s; MacFarland Press; 60-71

2015               

The Cuban Missile Crisis in Four Colors: Avengers #3 as an Allegory to Armageddon; The Ages of the Avengers: Essays on the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Changing Times; MacFarland Press; 5-11