M. Thomas Inge

Who is M. Thomas Inge?

M. Thomas Inge is an American writer, who is an authority on popular culture and comic art history. He is the author or editor of over 50 books.

Odyssey Press published his Agrarianism in American Literature in 1969. His three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by the American Library Association as an outstanding reference work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition in 1990.

He is currently a professor of humanities at Randolph–Macon College, where there was an exhibition of his 20th-century comic art collection in 2006. The M. Thomas Inge Collection of Comic Arts Reference Journals includes magazines, catalogs, fanzines, programs and humor publications. Inge has written extensively about Krazy Kat, Baron Bean and other comic strips.

Inge's first name is a well-kept secret.