Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. What follows is a selection of 10 books (their titles and metadata, including prices and publishers’ blurbs) of interest to those working in the field of comics scholarship published between 20 which we believe deserve wider scholarly attention and scrutiny. However, the slow pace of academic journal publishing and the busy workloads of academic experts ( TUC 20), along the lack of encouragement from employers, assessment and funding bodies to publish book reviews ( Fischer 2016), means many relevant books remain unreviewed in a timely manner in specialised academic journals. The Review section in this journal is evidence of the ongoing work we encourage in this area. Whenever possible, review copies are assigned to expert reviewers who then submit their reviews to be considered for publication. The journal appreciates receiving these copies, which offer an insight into how fertile the field is. During the 2017–2018 editorial year, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship received review copies from various scholarly publishers.
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