Maryanne A. Rhett, Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922 (London: Bloomsbury, 2020, $135.00 cloth, $40.95 paper). Pp. 137. ISBN 978 1 3500 7324 1, 978 1 3501 9627 8.

There is little written on comics, and this topic, within comic studies or historical work more generally, so Rhett's book is a welcome intervention on both counts. Rhett's work takes the reader into a particularly knotty period for the discussion of immigration and its representation in American popular culture. My main concern remains the length of the book and its narrow focus, albeit on a key period for histories of immigration and US relations with Islam and Islamic countries