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A concise introduction to one of today’s fastest-growing, most exciting fields,
Comics Studies: A Guidebook outlines core research questions and introduces comics’ history, form, genres, audiences, and industries. Authored by a diverse roster of leading scholars, this Guidebook offers a perfect entryway to the world of comics scholarship.
List of contents
Timeline of Selected Events
Jonathan Chau, Bart Beaty, and Charles Hatfield
Introduction
Bart Beaty and Charles Hatfield
Part I Histories
Chapter 1 Comic Strips
Ian Gordon
Chapter 2 Comic Books
Charles Hatfield
Chapter 3 Underground and Alternative Comics
Roger Sabin
Chapter 4 European Traditions
Bart Beaty
Chapter 5 Manga
Frenchy Lunning
Chapter 6 The Graphic Novel
Isaac Cates
Part II Cultures
Chapter 7 Comics Industries
Matthew P. McAllister and Brian MacAuley
Chapter 8 Readers, Audiences, and Fans
Benjamin Woo
Chapter 9 Children and Comics
Philip Nel
Chapter 10 Differences
Theresa Tensuan
Part III Forms
Chapter 11 Cartooning
Andrei Moltiu
Chapter 12 Design in Comics: Panels and Pages
Martha Kuhlman
Chapter 13 Words and Images
Jan Baetens
Part IV Genres
Chapter 14 Superheroes
Marc Singer
Chapter 15 Autographics
Gillian Whitlock
Chapter 16 Girls, Women, and Comics
Mel Gibson
Chapter 17 Digiral Comics
Darren Wershler, Kalervo Sinervo, and Shannon Tien
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
About the author
CHARLES HATFIELD is the author of
Alternative Comics and
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, and curator of the exhibition
Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby. He has chaired the International Comic Arts Forum and the MLA Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives, and cofounded the Comics Studies Society.
BART BEATY is the author, editor, and translator of more than twenty books in the field of comics studies, including
Twelve-Cent Archie and
Comics versus Art. He is the general editor of the
Critical Survey of Graphic Novels and is the lead researcher on the
What Were Comics? project.
Summary
A concise introduction to one of today’s fastest-growing, most exciting fields, Comics Studies: A Guidebook outlines core research questions and introduces comics’ history, form, genres, audiences, and industries. Authored by a diverse roster of leading scholars, this Guidebook offers a perfect entryway to the world of comics scholarship.
