Komiks: Comic Art in Russia

University Press of Mississippi, 2010. — 288 pages. Language: English. — ISBN-10: 1604733667, ISBN-13: 978-1604733662.Using archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and close readings of several works, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia provides unavailable access to Russia's rich comics heritage. The study examines the dizzying experimental comics of the late Czarist and early revolutionary era, caricature from the satirical journal Krokodil, and the postwar series Petia Ryzhik (the "Russian Tintin"). Detailed case studies include the Perestroika-era KOM studio, the first devoted to comics in the Soviet Union; post-Soviet comics in contemporary art; autobiography and the work of Nikolai Maslov; and women's comics by such artists as Lena Uzhinova, Namida, and Re-I.