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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This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor es...
Francesco-Alessio Ursini Adnan Mahmutovic Frank Bramlett
Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page.
Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging n...
