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Books by Chris Gavaler
  | | Superhero Thought Experiments(1st Edition) Comic Book Philosophy by Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-655-9, ISBN: 1-60938-655-8 "Examining the deep philosophical topics addressed in superhero comics, authors Gavaler and Goldberg read plot lines for the complex thought experiments they contain and analyze their implications as if the comic authors were philosophers. Reading superhero comic books through a philosophical lens reveals how they experiment with complex issues of morality, metaphysics, meaning, and medium. Given comics’ ubiquity and influence directly o ..." |
 | | On the Origin of Superheroes(1st Edition) From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 by Chris Gavaler Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-381-7, ISBN: 1-60938-381-8 "Most readers think that superheroes began with Superman s appearance in "Action Comics "No. 1, but that Kryptonian rocket didn t just drop out of the sky. By the time Superman s creators were born, the superhero s most defining elements secret identities, aliases, disguises, signature symbols, traumatic origin stories, extraordinary powers, self-sacrificing altruism were already well-rehearsed standards. Superheroes have a sprawling, ac ..." |
 | | Creating Comics A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies) by Chris Gavaler, Leigh Ann Beavers Paperback, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Usa Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-09281-5, ISBN: 1-350-09281-9 |
 | | School for Tricksters A Novel in Stories by Chris Gavaler Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Southern Methodist University ISBN-13: 978-0-87074-563-8, ISBN: 0-87074-563-8 "This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating chapters are closely based on two real-life students, Ivy Miller, a semi-orphaned white girl seeking a free education, and Sylvester Long, a black youth escaping the Jim Crow South. Both passed illegally as Indians while attending the U.S. government's most prestigious Indian boarding school.“From the painful r ..." |
 | | Pretend I'm Not Here by Chris Gavaler Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Harpertorch ISBN-13: 978-0-06-000253-4, ISBN: 0-06-000253-0 "Spending long, languid weekends in St. Thomas would seem like a dream job for most people. For single, thirty-something Ashley Farrell, however, it comes with the humiliation of having to act as chaperone for the varlous bachelor and bachelorette winners of a popular TV dating show. But this dead-end junket shows signs of new life. Between safeguarding the morals of curvaceous Melissa and voracious Randy and avoiding the diamond-drippin ..." |
 | | Creating Comics A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies) by Chris Gavaler and Leigh Ann Beavers Hardcover, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-09282-2, ISBN: 1-350-09282-7 |
 | | Revising Reality How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World by Chris Gavaler Softcover, Published 2024 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-43962-7, ISBN: 1-350-43962-2 |
 | | The Literary Review(1st Edition) Therapy! by Karina Borowicz, Robert Repino, Faye Reddecliff, Ron Savage, Martin Ott, Rand B. Lee, Matthew Salesses, The Literary Review, Bruce Cohen, Gillian Parrish, Catherine Doty, Chris Gavaler, Kyle Mcmanus, Mary Rose O'reilley, Ersi Sotiropoulous, Renee Ashley, Minna Proctor, Lawrence Cady, Polly Buckingham, Peter Kocan, Mina Proctor, Christine Condon, Linda Davis, Abigain Deutsch, Karen Emmerich, Jeff Hart, Cassie Hay, H. L. Hix, Yonatan Maisel, Jamie Mcculloch, Robert Nazarene, Jena Salon, Ersi Sotriopoulos, Paul-Victor Winters, Marion Wyce Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2009 by Fairleigh Dickinson University ISBN-13: 978-0-9841607-3-0, ISBN: 0-9841607-3-6 "The Therapy! Issue: We promise, it won't cure you. Featuring Bruce Cohen, Mary Rose O'Reilley, Ersi Sotiropoulous, Chris Gavaler, Peter Kocan, and H.L. Hix in conversation with Frank Bidart. This is literature as an expression of mental progress. It's not confessional so much as brutal. Honest, laced with self-deception, ample neuroses, and totally amazing poetry and short stories." |
 | | Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith(1st Edition) A Philosophical Account (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) by Goldberg, Nathaniel, Gavaler, Chris Hard Cover, 196 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-367-50618-6, ISBN: 0-367-50618-1 |
 | | Creating Comics A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology by Chris Gavaler, Leigh Ann Beavers 360 Pages, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-350-09284-6, ISBN: 1-350-09284-3 "2002: 163 Gertler seems to have a very specific desk in mind, and though artist Steve Lieber translates his descriptions dutifully, it's not possible for Lieber's drawn desk and Gertler's mentally imagined and then verbally described desk to be ..." |
 | | Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith A Philosophical Account by Nathaniel Jason Goldberg, Chris Gavaler 208 Pages, Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-00-305160-2, ISBN: 1-00-305160-X ""This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read." |
 | | Superhero Thought Experiments Comic Book Philosophy by Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Jason Goldberg 224 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-656-6, ISBN: 1-60938-656-6 "Comic Book Philosophy Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg ... New York: First Second, 2008. Alphona ... Aristotle. De Anima: A New Aristotle Reader. Ed. and trans. John L. Ackrill. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. ... Bright, M.D., Mike Gustovich (artists), and Dwayne McDuffie (writer). Icon: A Hero's Welcome." |
 | | On the Origin of Superheroes From the Big Bang to Action Comics by Chris Gavaler 264 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-382-4, ISBN: 1-60938-382-6 "“The Bible,” according to Pearl, “tells us God created numerous kinds of angelic beings to offer praise around his throne, but one called Lucifer led a third of them in rebellion.” Though tales of rebellious angels don't appear in the Bible till the ... I suggest Robert Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated. If you're also familiar with Crumb's Bible of Filth (it includes the outrageously incestuous “A Family that LAYS Together S ..." |
 | | Comics Form, The The Art of Sequenced Images by Gavaler, Chris Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2024 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-24595-2, ISBN: 1-350-24595-X |
 | | Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives A Critical Guide (Bloomsbury Comics Studies) by Reingold, Matt, Gavaler, Chris Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-30158-0, ISBN: 1-350-30158-2 |
 | | Mixed-Race Superheroes (Paperback) by Chris Gavaler, Jasmine Mitchell, Adrienne Resha Paperback, Published 2021 by Rutgers University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-978814-59-2, ISBN: 1-978814-59-3 |
 | | The Comics Form The Art of Sequenced Images by Gavaler, Chris Hardcover, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Usa Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-24591-4, ISBN: 1-350-24591-7 |
 | | Manga A Critical Guide (Bloomsbury Comics Studies) by Suzuki, Shige, Stewart, Ronald, Gavaler, Chris Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-07234-3, ISBN: 1-350-07234-6 |
 | | Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith A Philosophical Account by Goldberg, Nathaniel/ Gavaler, Chris Softcover, Published 2022 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-367-50875-3, ISBN: 0-367-50875-3 |
 | | Revising Reality How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World by Gavaler, Chris Hardcover, Published 2024 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-350-43961-0, ISBN: 1-350-43961-4 |
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