M. Thomas Inge

M. Thomas Inge, Ph.D. is the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of English and the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Inge teaches courses in American humor and satire, and is the author or editor of over fifty books. Inge is also engaged in research on the history and development of American comic art, which resulted in his book Comics as Culture.
More recent publications include Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip, a study of self-referentiality in the comics, and Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of interviews with the creator of Peanuts, the first in a series of such collections. Works in progress include books on the relations between American literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the films of Walt Disney.