"This is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive study of long-running European cartoon series about motorcyclists, including Ogri and Joe Bar Team. Walton unpacks the comics for audiences unfamiliar with the series (and potentially their languages), mapping how they engage with motorcycles, motorcyclists, and motorcycling. Touching on topics from 'laddism' to 'ecocriticism', the book delves beneath the comics’ surface humor. With impressive critical rigor, Walton proves that 'comic-book bikers' merit serious consideration for they participate directly in wider cultural discussions about class, gender, race, ethnicity, identity, sexuality, and the environment—and challenge stereotypical pop-culture images of bikers as outlaws.

Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferriss, authors of Motorcycle and An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles

Iberian cultural studies at its very best. David Walton is a master of critical analysis and telling insight, offering new ways of seeing what he calls European comic-book bikers. A must read for anyone interested in contemporary culture and the expanding critical gaze of cultural studies.

John Storey, University of Sunderland