Resurrection

<b>Winner 2023 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book</b><br> <br> <i>Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia</i> traces the kopecks to rubles journey of Russian comics at the turn of the century. As the follow-up to José Alaniz's groundbreaking <i>Komiks: Comic Art in Russia</i> (2010) <i>Resurrection</i> authoritatively and exhaustively details the Russian comic landscape of the last three decades: beginning after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union and encompassing the fourth Putin administration the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. Bolstering his analysis with interviews with some of the major figures in Russia's comics industry Alaniz particularly focuses on the representation of masculinity disability historical trauma and superheroes as well as on the recent rise of fandom alternative micropresses and nonfiction graphic narrative. <i>Resurrection</i> is a sweeping discussion of the metamorphosis of contemporary Russian comic art from its rebirth to its entry into mainstream culture.