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By assembling a rich and varied range of analyses, BOOM! SPLAT! makes a distinct contribution to the study of the fraught relationship between racial, sexual, gendered, historical, and political violence and the comics medium.--Thomas Giddens, editor of Critical Directions in Comics Studies Comics have always been uniquely situated to recreate and even recalibrate the goings-on of public culture. BOOM! SPLAT! offers a testament to this crucial function of comics and demonstrates the very relevant, very real overlaps between comics and real-world exigencies and events.--Christopher J. Gilbert, author of Caricature and National Character: The United States at War

"The contributors to BOOM! SPLAT! expertly dispel the common assumptions and clichés about comics representations of violence. Even more importantly, this volume expands critical understandings of the power dynamics, ideological forces, and unspoken harm that constitute violence in all kinds of visual narrative. The comics under investigation cut across genre and geography and take into account a variety of historical periods and politics. Such a rich collection is sure to be an important addition to the study of comics in our classrooms and reading communities."" - Qiana J. Whitted, professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina and author of EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest ""By assembling a rich and varied range of analyses, BOOM! SPLAT! makes a distinct contribution to the study of the fraught relationship between racial, sexual, gendered, historical, and political violence and the comics medium."" - Thomas Giddens, editor of Critical Directions in Comics Studies ""Comics have always been uniquely situated to recreate and even recalibrate the goings-on of public culture. BOOM! SPLAT! offers a testament to this crucial function of comics and demonstrates the very relevant, very real overlaps between comics and real-world exigencies and events."" - Christopher J. Gilbert, author of Caricature and National Character: The United States at War"

The contributors to BOOM! SPLAT! expertly dispel the common assumptions and clichés about comics representations of violence. Even more importantly, this volume expands critical understandings of the power dynamics, ideological forces, and unspoken harm that constitute violence in all kinds of visual narrative. The comics under investigation cut across genre and geography and take into account a variety of historical periods and politics. Such a rich collection is sure to be an important addition to the study of comics in our classrooms and reading communities.--Qiana J. Whitted, professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina and author of EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest By assembling a rich and varied range of analyses, BOOM! SPLAT! makes a distinct contribution to the study of the fraught relationship between racial, sexual, gendered, historical, and political violence and the comics medium.--Thomas Giddens, editor of Critical Directions in Comics Studies Comics have always been uniquely situated to recreate and even recalibrate the goings-on of public culture. BOOM! SPLAT! offers a testament to this crucial function of comics and demonstrates the very relevant, very real overlaps between comics and real-world exigencies and events.--Christopher J. Gilbert, author of Caricature and National Character: The United States at War

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Jim Coby is assistant professor of English at Indiana University Kokomo. He regularly teaches classes in American literature, literature of the American South, horror literature, and contemporary culture. Joanna Davis-McElligatt is assistant professor of Black literary and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, where she is affiliate faculty in women’s and gender studies. She is coeditor of Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy and Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.

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