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This sharply argued, clearly written book displays admirable breadth and scope. In covering an array of comic forms and making a point of including multiple Asian ethnicities, Beyond the Icon puts a full range and diversity of Asian American subjectivity and creativity on display. --LeiLani Nishime, author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture

"""This sharply argued, clearly written book displays admirable breadth and scope. In covering an array of comic forms and making a point of including multiple Asian ethnicities, Beyond the Icon puts a full range and diversity of Asian American subjectivity and creativity on display."" --LeiLani Nishime, author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture"

"""Beyond the Icon is an academic study, but these authors and others provide interesting discussions of the books they feature as well as complementary titles that this collection can also be of interest to readers who are not academics and are simply fans of graphic novels and comics."" --Susan Blumberg-Kason, Asian Review of Books ""Given the scope of its subject matter, Beyond the Icon opens an expansive space for imagining new directions in the study of Asian American graphic narratives."" --Akash Belsare, Rocky Mountain Review ""Beyond the Icon compiles a collection of outstanding and wide-ranging takes by a number of prestigious scholars in comic studies, and features a number of vitally important Asian American graphic texts. ... Social issues, intersectional articulations, and contentions with stereotypes--including those emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic--ensure that Beyond the Icon marks only the beginning of many more investigations into Asian American graphic narratives."" --Leah Abuan Milne, MELUS ""Eleanor Ty's new edited volume, Beyond the Icon, is a strong and much-needed contribution to the growing but underrepresented field of critical studies of graphic literature. ... The far-reaching design of Beyond the Icon gives the reader a good sense of the breadth of the genre, as well as a keen perspective into how the genre has and is transforming in historical space."" --Mark Augustus Dodge, Journal of Popular Culture ""This sharply argued, clearly written book displays admirable breadth and scope. In covering an array of comic forms and making a point of including multiple Asian ethnicities, Beyond the Icon puts a full range and diversity of Asian American subjectivity and creativity on display."" --LeiLani Nishime, author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture"

""Beyond the Icon is an academic study, but these authors and others provide interesting discussions of the books they feature as well as complementary titles that this collection can also be of interest to readers who are not academics and are simply fans of graphic novels and comics."" --Susan Blumberg-Kason, Asian Review of Books ""Given the scope of its subject matter, Beyond the Icon opens an expansive space for imagining new directions in the study of Asian American graphic narratives."" --Akash Belsare, Rocky Mountain Review ""Beyond the Icon compiles a collection of outstanding and wide-ranging takes by a number of prestigious scholars in comic studies, and features a number of vitally important Asian American graphic texts. ... Social issues, intersectional articulations, and contentions with stereotypes--including those emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic--ensure that Beyond the Icon marks only the beginning of many more investigations into Asian American graphic narratives."" --Leah Abuan Milne, MELUS ""Eleanor Ty's new edited volume, Beyond the Icon, is a strong and much-needed contribution to the growing but underrepresented field of critical studies of graphic literature. ... The far-reaching design of Beyond the Icon gives the reader a good sense of the breadth of the genre, as well as a keen perspective into how the genre has and is transforming in historical space."" --Mark Augustus Dodge, Journal of Popular Culture ""This sharply argued, clearly written book displays admirable breadth and scope. In covering an array of comic forms and making a point of including multiple Asian ethnicities, Beyond the Icon puts a full range and diversity of Asian American subjectivity and creativity on display."" --LeiLani Nishime, author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture

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Eleanor Ty, FRSC, is a Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author and editor of books on Asian North American literature and eighteenth-century British fiction, including Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority.

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