Mini-Thoughts on Minicomics - A Photocopying Fantasia

List of contents

Introduction: Please Swipe Card.- Chapter 1: Memory Full.- Chapter 2: Add Staples.- Chapter 3: Paper Jam.- Chapter 4: Cancelled Job.- Chapter 5: Original Size Cannot Be Detected. Conclusion: Log Off?.

About the author

Paul Williams is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. In addition to articles on comics published in journals such as
American Literary History
,
Journal of American Studies
,
Studies in the Novel
, and
Textual Practice
, he has written four books:
The US Graphic Novel
 (2022),
Dreaming the Graphic Novel
(2020),
 Paul Gilroy
(2012), and
Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War
(2011). He co-edited the collection
The Rise of the American Comics Artist
 (2010) with James Lyons.

Summary

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes, the affective histories that surround minicomics, and the implications for conceptualizing the subject that writes, draws, photocopies, distributes, reads, and stores minicomics.
Mini-Thoughts on Minicomics
 contains chapters on stapling and archiving but is primarily concerned with xerography and the social contexts in which comics are made using photocopiers. The focus is on US texts and contexts, though minicomics from Britain and elsewhere in the world are also included.
Mini-Thoughts on Minicomics
 is informed by comics history, media archaeology, folklore studies, workplace ethnography, ontology of paperwork, and critical theory, and the book analyzes how creators have reflected on the making of minicomics through published interviews and as depicted in minicomics themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Williams
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.03.2026
• EAN: 9783032168580
• ISBN: 978-3-032-16858-0
• Illustrations: Approx. 140 p. 30 illus. in color., farbige Illustrationen
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Kunstgeschichte, Populäre Kultur, contemporary Art, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Popular Culture, auseinandersetzen, Contemporary Literature, Xerox, Archiving, Printing and Publishing, Graphic Novel / Comic / Manga / Cartoon, Zines, Queering, Comics Studies, Print Culture, comics production, graphiation, photocopy, xeroxlore, Minicomics, art objects