Carolyn Cocca
author, Superwomen: Gender, Power, & Representation
In Politics in the Gutters, Christina Knopf has made a tremendous contribution to many fields - political science, media and communications, literature, American studies, and comics studies. Clear, detailed, and easy to read, this enormous undertaking skillfully illuminates the intersections of comics and real-world politics.
Marc DiPaolo
author, War, Politics and Superheroes
Christina Knopf breaks new ground with Politics in the Gutters: American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media. While there are historians who cover comic books and superheroes, Knopf’s writing is far more substantive, going deeper into the real history and politics, making her books unique.
INKS
Chistina M. Knopf’s Politics in the Gutters is a great read. Your local or online bookseller will thank you—and ought to send Knopf a thank-you note, too—since, if you’re anything like me, you’ll want to order a whole bunch of the comics Knopf writes about, read them, and then come back to Politics in the Gutters again. What’s better than a book that makes you want to read more comics?
anonymous reviewer
[Knopf] is always EXCELLENT at uncovering evocative and meaningful events in history in which comics influenced the real world, as well as identifying obscure texts with a lot to say, politically, even if they are underappreciated in fandom proper.
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Knopf, C.M. (2023). Familiarity is the path to the Dark Side: Domesticating political problems with Star Wars. Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, 3(1), 24-31.
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Knopf, C.M. (2022). Caped crusaders and cartoon crossovers: A nostalgic look "Beyond" DC superheroes. In D. Brode (Ed.), The DC comics universe: Critical essays, pp. 349-362. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
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Knopf, C.M. (2022). AfterShock’s Rough Riders and the reification of race reimagined. In M. Goodrum, D. Hall, & P. Smith (Eds.), Drawing the past: Comics and the historical imagination, Vol. 1, pp. 212-227. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
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Knopf, C.M. (2021). The Democratic primary debates in political cartoons, or Santa Claus gets voted off Fantasy Island. In R. Denton, Jr. (Ed.), Studies of communication in the 2020 presidential campaign, pp. 83-104. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- Knopf, C.M. (2020). The American nightmare: Graveyard voters, demon sheep, devil women, and lizard people. In D. Picariello, ed. The politics of horror, pp. 3-16. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Knopf, C.M. (2020). UFO (unusual female other) sightings in Saucer Country/State: Metaphors of identity and presidential politics. In S. Langsdale & E. Coody (Eds.), Monstrous women in comics, pp. 257-273. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
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Knopf, C.M. (2019). "Carrie Fisher sent me": Princess Leia as an avatar of resistance in the Women’s March(es). Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, 1(1): https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/103/66
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Knopf, C.M. (2019). Politics as "the sum of everything you fear": Scarecrow as phobia entrepreneur. In D. Picariello (Ed.), Politics in Gotham: The Batman universe and political thought, pp. 159-176. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.