His first book was a collection of essays on comics and graphic novels published in October 2010. His monograph Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age, published by Zero Books in 2012, offers a critical analysis of the politics of the 21st-century superhero movie. His book Transmedia: Storytelling in the Digital Age was published (in Dutch) by Amsterdam University Press in 2013. An edited collection on adaptation studies and convergence culture titled The Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology appeared in 2015. His book Science Fiction, Fantasy and Politics: Transmedia World-building Beyond Capitalism was published in August 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield International. Together with Matt Hills, he co-edits the book series Transmedia: Participatory Culture and Media Convergence for Amsterdam University Press, for which he also co-edited the book Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017). He co-edited the Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives, which was published by De Gruyter in 2021. In 2022, we published two books focused on the work of Afrofuturist performer and activist Janelle Monáe: Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label (Rutgers University Press) approaches her work as a network of creative and activist vectors, while Janelle Monáe's "Dirty Computer" (from Palgrave MacMillan's book series SF: A New Canon) is a study of Monáe's most ambitious transmedia project. He is currently writing a book on the Fast & Furious franchise for Minnesota University Press.
Book covers
"Queer Afrofuturism" cover
"Dirty Computer" cover
Comics handbook cover
Star Wars book cover
World-building book cover
Politics of Adaptation book cover
Transmedia book cover
Capitalist Superheroes cover
Comics studies book cover