Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester's edited collection A Comics Studies Reader (UP Mississippi) was recently awarded the 2009 Peter C. Rollins award for best book on popular culture studies. The award is offered by the Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association.
I've read the book and think it will eventually become one of several texts from which scholars will build comics studies programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the United States. I can't recommend the book enough for those wanting to get a fairly thorough look at the many facets of comics scholarship. Combine it with The System of Comics, the recent edition of the journal English Language Notes (46.2), and MLA's just-released Teaching the Graphic Novel, and you've pretty much got the academic scene in comics (in post-secondary education, anyway) covered.
Hmm... maybe I should approach UP Mississippi about publishing something called The Comics and Literacy Reader. If you're reading, are you interested there in Jackson? :)
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