What kind of studies is comics studies? / Benjamin Woo -- Why there is no 'language of comics' / Frank Bramlett -- In box : rethinking text in the digital age / Shiamin Kwa -- What else is a comic? Between Bayeux and Beano / Evan Thomas -- Reading spaces : the politics of page layout / Katherine Kelp-Stebbins -- Comics as art / David M. Ball -- The cartoon on the comics page : a phenomenology / Christopher Pizzino -- All by myself : single-panel comics and the question of genre / Michelle Ann Abate -- Drawing, redrawing, and undrawing / Benoît Crucifix -- Bakhtinian laughter and recent political editorial cartoons / Michael A. Chaney and Sara B. Chaney -- Columbia and the editorial cartoon / Nhora Lucía Serrano -- Efficacy of social commentary through cartooning / Ally Shwed -- Radical graphics : Australian second-phase comics / Kevin Patrick -- Self-regulation and self-censorship : comics creators in Czechoslovakia and Communist Eastern Bloc / Pavel Kořínek -- This is who I am : hybridity and materiality in comics memoir / John Logan Schell -- Auto/biographics and graphic histories made for the classroom : Logicomix and Abina and the important men / Sidonie Smity and Julia Watson -- Ambiguity in parallel : visualizing history in Boxers and saints / Lan Dong -- Irony, ethics, and lyric narrative in Miriam Engelberg's Cancer made me a shallower person / James Phelan -- Animals in graphic narrative / José Alaniz -- The diversionary art of Zeina Abirached in Le piano oriental / Mark McKinney -- Disco, derby, and drag : the queer politics of Marvel's Dazzler / Nicholas E. Miller -- The replacements : ethnicity, gender, and legacy heroes in Marvel Comics / Jeffrey A. Brown -- Hammer in hand : feminist community building in Jason Aaron's Thor / Susan Kirtley -- When feminism went to market : issues in feminist anthology comics of the 1980s and '90s / Rachel R. Miller -- Children in comics : between education and entertainment, conformity and agency / Maaheen Ahmed -- I'm not a kid, I'm a shark! : identity fluidity in Noelle Stevenson's young-adult graphic novels / James J. Donahue -- Forgetting at the intersection of comics and the multimodal novel : James Sie's Still life Las Vegas / Torsa Ghosal -- My favorite thing is monsters : the socially engaged graphic novel as a platform for intersectional feminism / Dan Hassler-Forest -- Paper or plastic? Mapping the transmedial intersections of comics and action figures / Daniel F. Yezbicki and Jonathan Alexandratos -- Transformative architectures in postcolonial Hong Kong comics / Kin Wai Chu -- Adaptation and racial representation in Dell/Gold Key TV tie-ins / Andrew J. Kunka -- Candy and drugs for dinner : Rat queens, genre, and our aesthetic categories / Sean Guynes -- Non-compliants, brimpers, and she-romps : Bitch planet, Sex criminals, and their publics / Henry Jenkins -- Literary adaptations in comics and graphic novels -- Comics studies in America : the making of a field of scholarship? / Ian Gordon -- Next issue : anticipation and promise in comics studies / Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith -- Comics studies as interdiscipline / Dale Jacobs -- Comics studies as practitioner-scholar / Damian Duffy.
Summary:
The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds.
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