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Challenging common critical practices and offering new interpretations of canonical texts by Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, Chris Ware, and others, this volume offers the first major critique of the field of comics studies.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pow! Zap! Comics Aren’t Just for Cultural Studies Professors Anymore
- 1.The Myth of Eco: Comics, Continuity, and Cultural Populism
- 2.The Abuses of History: Postmodernism and Contemporary Superhero Comics
- 3.Properties of the Imagination: Copyright and Empire in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- 4.The Limits of Realism: Alternative Comics and the Workshop Aesthetic
- 5.Comics Studies in Miniature: The Canonization of Persepolis
- 6.Shadows of the Past: Fictions of History in Nat Turner
- Afterword: Never Apologize, Never Defend
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Marc Singer is an associate professor of English at Howard University. He is the author of
Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics and the coeditor of
Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World.
Summary
Challenging common critical practices and offering new interpretations of canonical texts by Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, Chris Ware, and others, this volume offers the first major critique of the field of comics studies.
