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Here is my basic book list for my Literature of the Graphic Word course. I almost entirely rely on desk copies and donations from publishers for content materials, and some of the publishers don't even acknowledge my requests for information. Literature of the Graphic Word Title	Author	ISBN	Publisher Understanding Comics	Scott McCloud	0-06-097625-X

Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative	Will Eisner	0-9614728-2-0

The Language of Comics: Words and Images	ed. Robin Varnum	1-57806-414-7

How To Read Superhero Comics	Geoff Klock	0-8266-1419-2 Batman: The Dark Night Returns	Frank Miller	1-56389-342-8 Maus I	Art Spiegelman	0-679072977-1 Maus II	Art Spiegelman	0-394-74723-2

The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion	Will Eisner	0-393-06045-4 The Contract with God Trilogy	Will Eisner	0-393-06105-1 Kingdom Come	Mark Waid Alex Ross	1-56389-330-4	DC Comics

Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi	0-375-42230-7	Pantheon

The Vietnam War: A Graphic History	Zimmerman & Vansant	978-8090-9495-0	Hill & Wang

Fax from Sarajevo	Joe Kubert	1-56971-143-7	Dark Horse

Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	978-8090-5101-4	Hill & Wang

Merriam Websters Reader's Handbook		0-321-10541-9	Merriam-Webster

Going Graphic	Stephen Cary	0-325-00475-7	Heinemann

Watchmen	Alan Moore	0-930289-23-4

If you have any influence with publishers of comics/graphic novels, please pass my info along to them, I'd love to send them a copy of my syllabus and get some materials from them for my classes.

Oh, and I donate the pieces I don't use to our University Library to help build up their collection, so nothing goes to waste.