Description: The first study to trace the evolution of Russian comics from Soviet bête noire to post-Perestroika art form
Brief description: José Alaniz is professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington-Seattle. He is author of Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia; Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond; and Komiks: Comic Art in Russia, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.