Books

Stealing Home: Rookie Season (Good Comics, 2019)

Stealing Home: Rookie Season collects the first year of Paddy Johnston’s warm, heartfelt and deep personal essays about baseball, fan stories, and why we find meaning in sports.

With illustrations by Samuel C. Williams and Rozi Hathaway bringing each essay to life, Stealing Home deals with childhood trauma, choosing who to root for, dealing with player trades, growing up, body image, confidence, mental health, and the meaning that sports give to our lives.

Cultures of Comics Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

In 2016 I co-edited the collection Cultures of Comics Work with Dr Casey Brienza, published with Palgrave Macmillan on their Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels list. As well as editing the book, I also wrote a chapter on cartoonist John Porcellino and wrote the introduction, which is a manifesto for viewing comics through the lens of cultural work.

The Canadian Alternative (University Press of Mississippi, 2017)

In 2017 I contributed a chapter to The Canadian Alternative, an edited collection about Alternative Comics in Canada. My chapter focuses on the cultural work of Quebecois cartoonist Michel Rabagliati and his unique position in the Canadian market.