Here are a few general references about cartoons and their creators:
- Alternative comics : an emerging literature / Charles Hatfield
- Best American Comics series
- Black comix : African American independent comics art and culture / Damian Duffy & John Jennings ; foreword by Keith Knight
- Comic art in America; a social history of the funnies, the political cartoons, magazine humor, sporting cartoons, and animated cartoons. / With an int
- Comics : a global history, 1968 to the present / Dan Mazur & Alexander Danner
- Comics & culture : analytical and theoretical approaches to comics / edited by Anne Magnussen, Hans-Christian Christiansen
- Comics art / Paul Gravett
- Comics as a nexus of cultures : essays on the interplay of media, disciplines and international perspectives / edited by Mark Berninger, Jochen Ecke a
- Comics, comix & graphic novels / [Roger Sabin]
- Comics, manga, and graphic novels : a history of graphic narratives / Robert S. Petersen
- Critical approaches to comics : theories and methods / edited by Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan
- Crossing boundaries in graphic narrative : essays on forms, series and genres / edited by Jake Jakaitis and James F. Wurtz
- Drawing the line : comics studies and INKS, 1994-1997 / edited by Lucy Shelton Caswell and Jared Gardner
- The essential guide to world comics / Tim Pilcher, Brad Brooks
- From comic strips to graphic novels : contributions to the theory and history of graphic narrative / edited by Daniel Stein, Jan-Noel Thon
- Girls and their comics : finding a female voice in comic book narrative / Jacqueline Danziger-Russell
- Graphic storytelling / by Will Eisner
- Graphic women : life narrative and contemporary comics / Hillary L. Chute
- The language of comics : word and image / edited by Robin Varnum and Christina T. Gibbons
- Linguistics and the study of comics / edited by Frank Bramlett
- Making comics : storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels / Scott McCloud
- Multicultural comics : from Zap to Blue Beetle / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama ; foreword by Derek Parker Royal
- Out of sequence : underrepresented voices in American comics / Damian Duffy + John Jennings ; with essays by Shaenon K. Garrity ... [et al.] ; and seq
- Projections : comics and the history of twenty-first-century storytelling / Jared Gardner
- Reinventing comics / Scott McCloud
- The rise and reason of comics and graphic literature : critical essays on the form / edited by Joyce Goggin and Dan Hassler-Forest
- Studying comics and graphic novels / Karin Kukkonen
- Understanding comics : the invisible art / Scott McCloud
- Women in the comics / Maurice Horn
- Your brain on Latino comics : from Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez / Frederick Luis Aldama
- Your brain on Latino comics from Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez / [electronic resource] : Frederick Luis Aldama
