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Philippe Delisle and Benoît Glaude, Jijé: L’Autre père de la BD francobelge (Montrouge, France: PLG, 2019). 180 pp. ISBN: 97829178Nhora Lucía Serrano, ed., Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis (New York: Routledge, 2021). 268 pp. ISBN: 9781138186156 (Hardback: £120; e-book: £27.74)Johannes C. P. Schmid, Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics (London: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, 2021). 292 pp. ISBN: 9783030633035 (e-book: £43.99)

David Kunzle, Cham: The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019). 566 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4968-1618-4 ($90)Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal, eds, Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018). 237 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8135-9095-0 ($29.95)Stephen E. Tabachnick, ed., The Cambridge Companion to The Graphic Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1-107-51971-8 (£21.99)Louie Dean Valencia-García, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). 248 pp. ISBN: 978-1-350-03847-9 ($114)

The multifaceted Galician artist, writer and politician Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886–1950) has been considered a pioneer of Galician comics, or banda deseñada. This is because of his key role in the development of the medium from his early comic strips in the magazine Vida gallega [Galician life] (1909), to the cartoons that he published in the press in the 1920s and 1930s. Furthermore, Castelao has become a comics character in several graphic biographies since the end of the 1970s. This article not only addresses the reasons for the recurrent presence of Castelao in Galician comics, but it also looks at how the latter have contributed to the mythologisation of this important figure of Galician culture. In aesthetic terms, it will reveal the overlaps between adaptation, biography and comics by analysing all three of them as networks.

Santiago García (trans. Bruce Campbell), On the Graphic Novel (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015). 375 pp. ISBN: 978-1-49681-318-3 ($30)Jan-Noël Thon, Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture, Frontiers of Narrative (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016). 527 pp. ISBN: 978-0-80-327720-5 (€50.99)Thierry Bellefroid, ed., L’Âge d’Or de la bande dessinée belge: La Collection du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège (Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2015). 96 pp. ISBN: 978-2-87-449232-7 (€19.50)Philippe Delisle, Petite histoire politique de la BD belge de langue française: Années 1920–1960 (Paris: Karthala, 2016). 199 pp. ISBN: 978-2-81- 111717-7 (€15)