This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field.

Essays examine:

• the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga, comix, and the comics code;
• issues such as authorship, ethics, adaptation, and translating comics;

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