Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections, edited by Martha Kuhlman & José Alaniz

Abstract

This book is undeniably a welcome study. Welcome because there are too few studies on European comics in general and even less about marginal[ized] ones, in English. Except for a couple of them (e.g., Bunjevac), the majority of the authors named in this study will be unknown to most scholars outside these “New” (i.e., mostly Slavic) European countries. But it is interesting to discover new talents and new issues, or new ways of bringing up older issues (e.g., trauma, censorship...). Like the...