Celebrating in 2026: the 105th anniversary of the lost film Il Mostro di Frankenstein (1921); the 95th anniversary of Universal Studios’ Frankenstein (1931); the 60th anniversary of Dell Comics’ superhero version of Frankenstein (1966), Hanna Barbera’s television hero Frankenstein Jr, co-star of the series Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles (1966), and the films Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966) and The War of the Gargantuas (1966); the 55th anniversary of General Mills’ cereal mascot Franken Berry (1971); the 50th anniversary of the Saturday-morning television series Monster Squad (1976); the 45th anniversary of the anime film Kyofu Densetsu: Kaiki! Furankenshutain (1981); the 40th anniversary of Ken Russell’s film Gothic (1986) and Fred Saberhagen’s novel The Frankenstein Papers (1986); the 25th anniversary of Curtis Jobling’s picture book Frankenstein's Cat (2001); the 20th anniversary of Grant Morrision’s comic book series Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein (2006); the 15th anniversary of Nick Dear’s play Frankenstein (2011); the 10th anniversary of the Royal Ballet's production of Frankenstein (2016); and the release of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film Bride! (2026).

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Out Now: Frankenstein and Its Legacy in the Comics

Good news to share.

I just received my contributor's copy of the International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 23, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2021), which includes my bibliography of scholarship on Frankenstein in the comics. The listing was created as a resource distributed at a presentation on the novel's bicentennial in 2018 and delivered at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts, where I'm working as an adjunct.


The full citation is listed below if anyone needs to track down a copy. Copies of the volume can be purchased from IJoCA's website; there was talk recently of digital copies of the journal, but that information does not seem listed yet.

Here's the full citation: 

Torregrossa, Michael A.“Frankenstein and Its Legacy in the Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2021, pp. 432-40.






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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Frankenstein in Comics New Scholarship

Apologies for tooting my own horn, but I recently had three items published based on my ongoing work on adaptations of Frankenstein the comics.

The citations are as follows:


Torregrossa, Michael A. “Building a Better Bride: Female Frankenstein Monsters in the Comics.” Proceedings of the 2020 Science Fictions Popular Cultures Academic Conference, edited by Timothy F. Slater, Carrie J. Cole, and Greg Littman, Pono Publishing, 2020, pp. 165-73. ISBN 979-8689344874 (paperback); eBook ASIN B08NT97MFD. 

Torregrossa, Michael A. “Frankenstein and Its Legacy in the Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2021, pp. 432-40.

Torregrossa, Michael. “She Lives: Bringing the Bride of Frankenstein to Life in the Comics.” Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Far West Popular Culture Association Conference, edited by David G. Schwartz, Digital Scholarship@UNLV, 2021, digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/fwpca/33rdannual/fourtwo/3/.








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