Arresting Development is an excellent point of connection between previous and current scholarship of the contemporary comics era-a project that encourages scholars to embrace the complexity of what it means to read and study comics. * Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature * Pizzino's book is an excellent work for understanding the medium of comics in a transatlantic Anglophone world. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society * Important...[Pizzino's] case studies will undoubtedly shape future critical discussions of the individual works that are their focus. * Studies in the Novel * I recommend Arresting Development without reservation as the close readings of the comics in this book offer new insights that would not have been gained without the concept of autoclasm, a way of seeing comics as comics. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics * [Pizzino's] argument uncovers an important and often misunderstood history of comics' battle for cultural acceptance...Pizzino produces some enlightening readings of the formal ways cartoonists respond to the problem of legitimacy. * Twentieth-Century Literature * Arresting Development is a fascinating book...Pizzino offers interesting and thoughtful reflections on a number of important comic creators and works, and presents a refreshing new way to look at the question of 'status' in comics and the place of comics in relation to literature and fine art. * Comic Book Yeti *