Comics

• Gibson, M. 'Readers and Fans: Lived Comics Cultures', Aug 2023, The Cambridge Companion to Comics. Ahmed, M. (ed.). 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 287-307.
• Gibson, M. '... sure to delight every ballet fan': Consuming ballet culture through girls' periodical Girl, 1952–60 (2023) Journal of Film, Fashion and Consumption. Vol 12. 1. pp. 11 - 32 https://doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00050_1
• Gibson, M. ''It's the girl!': comics, professional identity, affection, nostalgia, and embarrassment.' In Dona Pursall and Eva Van de Wiele (eds) (2023) Sugar and Spice and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood. University of Leuven Press. pp. 24-44. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61392
• Gibson, M (2023) 'Librarians, agency, young people, and comics. Graphic Account and the development of graphic novel collections in libraries in Britain in the 1990s'. In Vanessa Ossa, Jan-Noel Thon and Lukas R.A. Wilde (eds) Comics and Agency. De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110754483/html
• Simon Grennan, Erin La Cour and Rik Spanjers (2022), (eds.) Key Terms in Comic Studies Palgrave Macmillan. (Entries on Fairy tales, gender and class).
• Gibson, M (2021), 'One upon a time, there was a very bad rat...': constructions of childhood, young people, vermin and comics. in M Ahmed (ed.), Strong Bonds: Relationships between Children and Animals in Comics. Collection ACME, University of Liège.
• Gibson, M (2020) Girls and Comics. In Hatfield, C and Beatty, B. (eds.) Comic Studies: A Guidebook. Rutgers UP.
• Gibson, M (2020) 'Queer girls in contemporary comics: disrupting normative notions'. Girlhood Studies. 13, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 1-16 doi: 10.3167/ghs.2020.130102
• Gibson, Mel (2019) Comics, Childhood and Memory - An Autobiography. Henry Jenkins Weblog
  
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• Gibson, Mel (2019) Memories of a medium: Comics, materiality, object elicitation and reading autobiographies. Participations. Volume 16, Issue 1
• Gibson, M (2018) Rising from the ashes: developing a new children's comic culture in Britain in the 21st century. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
• Gibson, M. (2018), ''Who's the girl with the kissin' lips?' Constructions of class, popular culture and agentic girlhood in Girl, Princess, Jackie and Bunty in the 1960s', Film, Fashion & Consumption, 7:2, pp. 131-46, doi: 10.1386/ffc.7.2.131_1
• Gibson, M (2018) 'Yeah. I think there still is hope'. Ms Marvel: youth, ethnicity, faith, feminism and fandom. In Michael Goodrum, Tara Prescott and Philip Smith (eds.) Gender and the Superhero Narrative Routledge.
• Gibson, M (2018) 'It's all come flooding back' Memories of childhood comics: narratives, practices and objects. In Maheen Ahmed and Benoît Crucifix (eds.) Comics and Memory Palgrave Studies in Comics.
• Gibson, M (2018) Let's hear it for the girls! Representations of girlhood, feminism and activism in comics and graphic novels. MAI: A Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture
• Gibson, M (29 June 2016) 'Comics and Gender' in Aaron Meskin, Frank Bramlett, and Roy Cook (eds) The Routledge Companion to Comics Routledge, pp. 285-293
• Gibson, M (2015) Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood, University of Lueven Press
• Gibson, M (Jan 2015) 'We don't need no steenkin' badgers' Bryan Talbot and multiculturalism' in Ian Hague & Carolene Ayaka (eds) Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels Routledge.
• Gibson, M (Dec 2014) 'Who does she think she is? Female comic-book characters, second-wave feminism, and feminist film theory'. In Ormrod, J, Gibson, M and Huxley, D (eds.) Superheroes and Identities Routledge (also contributing to introduction and editor), pp. 1-16 and 135-146.
• (eds) Gibson, M, Nabadzeh, G and Sambell, K (2014) Special Issue: Watch This Space: Childhood, Picturebooks and Comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Vol. 5 (3) pp. 241-379
• Gibson, M (2013) Afterword in Carrye Kay Syma and Robert G. Weiner (eds) Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom, Jeffeerson: McFarland, pp. 276-276.
• Gibson, M (2012) 'Sick Fictions: Contamination, Infection and Addiction in Accounts of Young Peoples' Reading of Comics' in Lee, Jason (ed) Cultures of Addiction. New York: Cambria Press pp.199-140
• Gibson, M (2011) 'Cultural Studies approaches to Audience' In Smith, M.J and Duncan, R. Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods New York: Routledge, pp. 267-279 (Collection on shortlist for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for "Best Educational/Academic Work" for 2012.)
• Gibson, M (2011) 'Bella at the Bar' in Gravett, Paul (ed) 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die: The Ultimate Guide to Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Manga NY Universe Publishing
• Guest editor Mel Gibson, Peter Coogan, David Huxley, Joan Ormrod & Derek Royal (2011) Special Issue: Superheroes and gender Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Vol 2 (1) pp.1-107
• Guest editor Mel Gibson and Rob Weiner (2011) Special Issue: Audiences and Readership Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Vol 2 (2) pp.109-207
• Gibson, M (2011) Booktrust leaflet and website (contributor)
• Gibson, M (2011) 'Developing a core library collection for teenagers and young adults - selecting materials - comics, graphic novels and Manga resources' in Rankin, C and Brock, A (eds) Library Services for Children and Young Adults: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age Facet
• Gibson, M (2010) 'State of the (Sequential) Art? Changing Perceptions of Comics. Manga and Graphic Novels in Britain' In Carrington, B and Harding, J (eds) Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Children and Young People, Pied Piper Press.
• Gibson, M (2010) 'What Bunty Really Did! Revisiting the Protagonist in Comics for Girls' in McCleery, A and Brabon, B (eds) Scottish Comics Edinburgh: Merchiston Publishing pp29-39
• Gibson, M (2010) 'We don't need just the DFC, we need lots of comics, and what's more, we can make them. Let's get to it: David Fickling, The DFC and the DFC Library'. INIS 33 Autumn, pp19-23.
• Gibson, M (2010) 'What Bunty did next? Responses to Protagonists in the British Girls' Comic in Late 20th Century Comics and Graphic Novels' Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Routledge pp 121-135.
• Gibson, M (May 2010) 'Graphic Novels, Comics and Picturebooks' in Rudd, D (ed) Routledge Companion to Children's Literature. London: Routledge pp.100-111
• Gibson, M (2010) 'State of the (Sequential) Art? Changing Perceptions of Comics. Manga and Graphic Novels in Britain' IBBYLink, Spring 2010
• Carey, A, Gibson, M and Lyons, C (2010) 'Through the looking glass: Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki'. INIS. The magazine of Children's Books Ireland, Spring 2010, No. 31, Dublin: CBI. pp.26-28
• Gibson, M (2010) Dr Peter Venkman: 'Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad!...' Dr Ray Stanz: 'Cross the streams...' Comics, manga, graphic novels and the challenge and excitement of cross-curricular work (with apologies to Ghostbusters [1984]) NATE Classroom No. 10, Spring, p. 10-12
  (Also available in NATE online Collection 2 'Reading and responding to fiction KS2, KS3 and KS4'
  NATE Members can access the Collections free of charge by logging into the Members Area of their website at www.nate.org.uk. Non-members will have to pay for access via the online shop, at a charge of £12.50 per collection).
• Gibson, M (2009) The war of the worlds? Classics, comics and ways of thinking about adaptations.NATE Classroom No. 9, Autumn, p. 11-13
• Gibson, M (2008) Nobody, Somebody, Everybody: Ballet, Girlhood, Class, Femininity and Comics in 1950s Britain. Girlhood Studies, Issue 2, Montreal: McGill University pp 108-128
• Gibson, M (2008) From 'Susan of St. Brides' to 'Heartbreak Hospital'. Nurses and nursing in the girls' comic from the 1950s to the 1980s. Journal of Children's Literature Studies, July 2008 pp. 104-126
• Gibson, M (2008) What you read and where you read it, how you get it, how you keep it: Children, comics and historical cultural practice. Popular Narrative Media, Volume 1, Issue 2, Autumn 2008, pp 151-167
• Gibson, M (2008) The Powerful World of Graphic Texts. In Goodwin, P. (ed.) Understanding Children's Books: A Guide for Education Professionals, Sage
• Gibson, M. (2008) Understanding and using manga, comics and graphic novels in school. NATE Classroom No. 5. Summer. p. 8-10.
• Gibson, M (2007) The Tale Of One Bad Rat: the child alone and the alternative and substitute family. In: Bradford, C & Coghlan, V (eds.) Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood & Children's Literature Lichfield, Pied Piper Press.
• Gibson, M (2007) Graphic Novels In The Curriculum. Learning and Teaching Scotland
• Gibson, M (2007) '"Wham! Bam! The X-Men Are Here": The British Broadsheet Press and the X-Men Film and Comic Revisited'. In: Comics into Films Gordon, I, Jancovich, M & McAllister, M (eds.) University Press of Mississippi
• Gibson, M (2007) '"What is this mango, anyway?" Manga and younger readers in Ireland and Britain'. INIS. The magazine of Children's Books Ireland, Dublin: CBI.
• Gibson, M (2007) 'Manga and younger readers in Britain. Some initial observations'. IBBYLink: British Section Newsletter, London: IBBY
• Gibson, M (2006) Mehr als eine Heldin - das Motiv der Clique im britischen Mädchencomic von 1950 bis 1980 In Diekmann, S & Schneider, M (eds.) Szenarien des comic: Helden Und Historien Im Medium Der Schriftbildlichkeit. SuKuLTuR, Berlin.
• Gibson, M (2003) ''You can't read them, they're for boys!' British Girls, American Superhero Comics and Identity'. International Journal of Comic Art Vol.5. No.1. Spring.
• Gibson, M (2003) 'What became of Bunty?' The emergence, evolution and disappearance of the girls' comic in post-war Britain. In Bearne, E. and Styles, M. (eds.) Art, Narrative & Childhood. Trentham Books.
• Gibson, M (2001) '"Wham! Bam! The X-Men Are Here": The British Broadsheet Press and the X-Men Film and Comic'. International Journal of Comic Art Vol.3. No.2. Fall, pp 239-249.
• Gibson, M (2000) On British comics for girls and their readers. In Moody, N. (ed.) Consuming for Pleasure, University of Liverpool John Moores Press, Liverpool
• Gibson, M (2000) 'Reading as Rebellion: The Case of the Girl's Comic in Britain'. International Journal of Comic Art Vol.1. No.2. Fall, pp 135-151
• Gibson, M (2000) Books with Attitude II. Annotated bibliography and guide to graphic novels and comic books. Farries.
• Gibson, M (2000) 'Creating new audiences: working in schools'. Sequential Tart, Vol. III, No.7.
• Gibson, M (2000) 'Creating new audiences: working with gatekeepers'. Sequential Tart, Vol. III, No.6.
• Gibson, M (1999) Comic Strip Materials: The British Perspective. In Pinsent, P. (ed.) Pop Fiction, National Centre for Research in Children's Literature Papers 5, Roehampton Institute