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The book presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. It consists of three sections: Forms maps the most significant comics forms, including material formats and techniques. Readings brings together a selection of tools to equip readers with a critical understanding of comics. Uses examines the roles accorded to comics in museums, galleries, and education. Chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptation, transmedia storytelling, issues of stereotyping and representation, and the lives of comics in institutional and social settings. This volume emphasizes the relationship between comics and other media and modes of expression. It offers close readings of vital works, covering more than a century of comics production and extending across visual, literary and cultural disciplines.
Contents are:
Introduction
I. Forms:
1. Comics drawing: a (poly)graphic history Simon Grennan
2. Comics, media culture and seriality Matthieu Letourneux
3. Comics and graphic novels Paul Williams
4. Manga, an affective form of comics Jaqueline Berndt
5. Digital comics: a new/old form Giorgio Busi Rizzi
II. Readings:
6. Comics and multimodal storytelling Blair Davis
7. Comics adaptations: fidelity and creativity Jan Baetens
8. Comics genres: cracking the codes Nicolas Labarre
9. Life writing in comics Shiamin Kwa
10. Racialines: interrogating stereotypes in comics Daniel Stein
11. Women and comics Maaheen Ahmed
12. Comics at the limits of narration Erwin Dejasse
III. Uses:
13. Comics and their archives Benoît Crucifix
14. Readers and fans: lived comics cultures Mel Gibson
15. Comics in the museum Kim Munson
16. Comics in libraries Jo Sutliff Sanders
17. ‘Educationally occupied’: learning with comics Susan Kirtley.
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