TwoMorrows Publishing, 2023

Years in development, Cliffhanger! documents the first superhero films in the greater context of both film and comic book history, in the period from 1941 to 1952. Cliffhanger! sold out of its print run within a year and there are plans to follow it up with a book focusing on superhero radio shows and their effect on the comic books themselves.

University of Mississippi Press, 2018

​To my knowledge, this is the first academic work on Larry Hama, the comic book creator responsible for G.I. Joe, The 'Nam, Wolverine, and more. Beyond his vast body of work, Hama is a leading Asian creator trained by a handful of comic book legends throughout the 1960s and '70s. It was an honor to compile my interviews with Hama alongside those of my collaborators. This project allowed me to think of Larry's career as one that touches on several different media--and that thought has further informed my approach towards transmedia studies.

University of Mississippi Press, 2015

I first interviewed Michael Allred in 1997, when he was in the middle of his successful creator-owned comic book Madman, and right after creating artwork for Kevin Smith's cult film Chasing Amy. This volume collects several of my interviews with Allred from over the years, and focuses on his work across media, with pastiche and kitsch, as well as his identity as a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. It's also the first academic work on Allred's existentialist pop culture comic book work.

MuttPop, 2015

This is the second and last collaboration between myself and photographer Seth Kushner, with photograph contributions by his friends after his untimely death from cancer. Created for a French publisher, it is only published in French and available overseas. It focuses on the locations in New York City that have played an important part in comic book history and storytelling. I hope to reuse the material (now reverted to myself) in a future study on New York City and comic books.

PowerHouse Books, 2012

Leaping Tall Buildings is the culmination of four years of comics journalism interviews with key comic book creators for the website project Graphic NYC, accompanied with photo portraits by Seth Kushner. These were assembled in a series of profiles that provided a survey of comics history, with a spotlight on many of the then-surviving key figures. It is the print version of the full-length profiles from our website Graphic NYC. LTB was translated in French by the publisher MuttPOP

IDW, 2010

This trade paperback combined interview-based essays with cartoonist Dean Haspiel interspersed with his autobiographical comic book stories and was written and edited as a cohesive unit that tied the two narrative means together.

12/2008-5/2013

Graphic NYC was a joint venture between myself and photographer Seth Kushner, where we respectively interviewed and photographed comics luminaries, giving the profiles the same treatment as a slick magazine. GNYC culminated in our book Leaping Tall Buildings. The project ended shortly after and the site itself was archived in the Wayback Machine.

TwoMorrows Publishing, 2006 

This book, an interview-based essay book on the life and career of cartoonist Peter Bagge, was intended as the first of a series that focused on independent comics creators and is a turning point in how I approached writing about comics journalism and history. I was tired of comics interview books that were just Q and A's, and wrote this as an essay series. The basis was a weekend's-worth of interviews done with Peter at his home in Seattle. While it's one of my lesser known works, it is one I'm still very proud of.

TwoMorrows Publishing, 2006

My first book, The Blue Beetle Companion is the first research book on the history of the long-running superhero. I began work as an undergrad at VCU in the 1990s and continued through to 2005, uncovering the truth behind the original publisher, Victor Fox, in the process. The character existed in three media during the 1940s: comic books, radio, and a newspaper strip, and this was my first time thinking of character development across media. I wrote at length about the book's importance in 2015. It still remains my favorite book project.