Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

498 RACE AND ETHNICITY or superhero origin stories that off er alternatives to the genre’s mainstream standbys. In these superhe ...

RACE AND ETHNICITY 499 Falcon, and Shard —also participate in ongoing conversations about unequal social opportunities and skewe ...

500 RACE AND ETHNICITY primarily on the Palestinian inhabitants’ experiences of deprivation and frustration with unequal social ...

RACE AND ETHNICITY 501 In the end, the book’s many cultural clashes, framed as farce, illustrate Jin’s complicated negotiation o ...

502 RALL, TED RALL, TED (1963–). Ted Rall is an acclaimed editorial cartoonist and columnist. He is currently president of the A ...

RAW 503 After a 1978 trip to Europe during which they met many future RAW contributors, Mouly and Spiegelman agreed at the begin ...

504 RELIGION IN COMICS Spiegelman’s own epic Holocaust memoir Maus , one chapter of which was included as a small-format supplem ...

RELIGION IN COMICS 505 medium’s foremost creators have been Jewish. Th ese include the creators of Superman , Jerry Siegel and J ...

506 RELIGION IN COMICS turned into graphic novels, such as Samson: Judge of Israel and Te s t a m e n t from Metron Press, Danie ...

RELIGION IN COMICS 507 the incursion of fundamentalist rule and her wider encounters with a disappointing world. Satrapi’s studi ...

508 RELIGION IN COMICS Knight. Raised Jewish, Spector pledged himself to this deity in exchange for saving his mortal life. Comp ...

RELIGION IN COMICS 509 of Truth. Th is alternate version of Warlock, now dubbed the Magus, could be read as Starlin commenting o ...

510 RETCON Selected Bibliography: Baskind, Samantha, and Ranen Omer-Sherman, eds. Th e Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches ...

ROAD TO PERDITION 511 own book in 1960. Within the decade, Richie Rich would become Harvey’s most popular character under the cr ...

512 ROAD TO PERDITION Kojima’s important manga , Lone Wolf and Cub , the epic story of a shogun’s enforcer, wrongly accused and ...

ROAD TO PERDITION 513 losing fi nancial proposition. O’Sullivan and son thus begin their crime spree against Midwestern banks an ...

514 ROBBINS, TRINA While Road to Perdition qualifi es as both a graphic crime novel and graphic historical novel, Collins’s expe ...

ROCKETEER, THE 515 promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry. See als ...

516 ROCKETEER, THE In the second story, Cliff fi n d s his way to New York. In contrast to the relatively open spaces of 1938 Ca ...

ROMANCE COMICS 517 in renewing mainstream interest in the career of bondage pinup girl Bette Page, whom Stevens befriended after ...