Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined (edited by Kees de Groot, 2024), and Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell (Blair Davis, 2024) offer two approaches to innovating the study of religion, readerships, culture, and comics. While Davis creates a well-anchored overview of religious content in comics from the 1940s onwards, de Groot’s anthology opens the door to sociological and ethnographic interpretations of this line of inquiry. While both are strong separately, they each offer frameworks which can fill the other’s gaps when read together.
Keywords: Religion, comics, graphic novels, sociology, popular culture
Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell
By Blair Davis, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2024.
Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined
Edited by Kees De Groot. Bloomsbury Academic, London, New York, Dublin, 2024.
Woock, E. A. (2025). Review: Comics, culture, and religion: faith imagined and Christianity and comics: stories we tell about heaven and hell. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2465648
