Roger Sabin
{{Short description|English writer}}
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Roger Sabin (born 1961) is an English writer about comics and lecturer at Central St. Martins.[http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/people/teaching-staff/culture-and-enterprise/dr-roger-sabin/ Central St. Martins' staff profiles]
Work
Sabin is best known for his book Adult Comics which has gone through a number of editions, remaining in print for 20 years and is the standard academic work{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} on the history of the comic book form, and Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art a cultural history of comics for both popular and scholarly audiences. He has also written newspaper articles on the topic of comics, film and punk culture.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/league-extraordinary-gentlemen-jamilti-humbug Movies don't move me], The Observer, May 10, 2009
Bibliography
=Books=
- Adult Comics: An Introduction (Taylor & Francis, 1993, {{ISBN|0-415-04419-7}}, Routledge, 2005, {{ISBN|0-415-29139-9}})
- Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art (Phaidon, 1996, {{ISBN|0-7148-3008-9}})
- The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth (University Press of Mississippi, 1996, {{ISBN|0878058591}})
- The Movie Book: An A-Z guide to 500 landmark individuals working in film (Phaidon, 1999, {{ISBN|0-7148-3847-0}})
- Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk (Routledge, 1999, {{ISBN|0-415-17030-3}})
- Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics from 1976 to the Present Day (Slab-O-Concrete, 2000, {{ISBN|1-899866-47-7}})
- Cop Shows: A Critical History of Police Dramas on Television (McFarland & Co Inc, 2015, {{ISBN|0-7864-4819-9}})
=Papers=
- "[https://books.google.com/books?id=cil7WbXg8BkC&pg=PA43 Crisis in Modern American and British Comics, and the Possibilities of the Internet as a Solution]", in Anne Magnussen & Hans-Christian Christiansen (Eds.), Comics & Culture: Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics, pp. 43–58. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000. {{ISBN|87-7289-580-2}}.
- "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090528090524/http://www.imageandnarrative.be/graphicnovel/rogersabin.htm Ally Sloper: The First Comics Superstar?]", Image & Narrative #7, October 2003
- "Comics", in Daniele Albertazzi & Paul Cobley (Eds.), The Media: An Introduction (3rd ed.), pp. 77–87. Harlow: Longman, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-4058-4036-1}}.
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