Overview

Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its transmedial and fan-fictional offshoots—on its own terms. Comics Studies stakes the flag of our arrival—the arrival of comics studies as a full-fledged discipline that today and tomorrow excavates, examines, discusses, and analyzes all aspects that make up the resplendent planetary republic of comics. This collection of scholarly essays is a testament to the fact that comic book studies have come into their own as an academic discipline; simply and powerfully moving comic studies forward with their critical excavations and theoretical formulas based on the common sense understanding that comics add to the world as unique, transformative cultural phenomena.

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Author:   Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367590703

ISBN 10:   0367590700
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Matt Madden’s Brief Comic Book Odyssey: A Foreword Comic Studies Here and Now: An Introduction Part I: Words, Pictures, and Borders Chapter 1: A Touch of Irony and Pity: Krazy Kat in the Breaks Ben Novotny Owen Chapter 2: In Love with Magic and Monsters: The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Rose O’Neill Richard Graham and Colin Beineke Chapter 3: It’s sorta wacky! But, different!: Scribbly, Inkie, and Pre-Underground Autobiographical Comics Andrew J. Kunka Chapter 4: How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics Publication Robert Hulshof-Schmidt Part II Transmedial Forms Chapter 5: Comics, Race, and the Political Project of Intermediality in Karen TeiYamashita’s I Hotel Jennifer Glaser Chapter 6: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window as ‘cineromanzo’ Jan Baetens Chapter 7: Articulate This!: Critical Action Figure Studies and Material Culture Jonathan Alexandratos and Daniel F. Yezbick Part III Institutions and Movements Chapter 8: Singapore cartoons in the anti-comics movement of the 1950s and 1960s Lim Cheng Tju Chapter 9: The Institutional Support for Hong Kong Independent Comics Kin Wai Chu Chapter 10: Jirō Taniguchi: France’s Mangaka Bart Beaty Part IV Resistant Word-Drawn Acts & Transformative Reading Communities Chapter 11: The Latina Superheroine: Protecting the Reader from the Comic Book Industry's Racial, Gender, Ethnic, and Nationalist Biases Enrique García Chapter 12: The Page is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South Asia Torsa Ghosal Chapter 13: Hands Across the Ocean: A 1970s Network of French and American Women Cartoonists Leah Misemer Chapter 14: Comics as Orientation Devices Katherine Kelp-Stebbins Chapter 15: Service Dogs, Code Switching, and Interracial Polyamory: Exploring the Reclamation Narratives of Comic Fandom Erica Massey Part V Margins Transforming Centers Chapter 16: Once and Again, Ack!: Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite’s Cathy Susan Kirtely Chapter 17: Transnationality and Textual Mestizaje in Love and Rockets Brittany Tullis Chapter 18: Only a Chilling Elegy: An Examination of White Bodies, Colonialism, Fascism, Genocide, and Racism in Dragon Ball Zachary Michael Lewis Dean Chapter 19: From the Inner City to the Interstellar: Brian K. Vaughan’s Comix after 9/11 James J. Donahue C

Reviews

'Frederick Luis Aldama has put together this finely curated collection featuring the writing talents of some of the leading scholars in Comics Studies. They take us on a journey of rediscovery through often-neglected and seldom-written-about aspects of sequential art. This book brings into focus the diverse nature of Comics Studies, where we have been, where we should be, where the future is going, and obviously where the study of sequential art is right now. A joy to read!' --Robert G. Weiner, Texas Tech University, USA

Author Information

Frederick Luis Aldama is the author, co-author, and editor of over 30 books, including recently Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor, University Distinguished Scholar, and Director of the award-winning LASER (Latinx Space for Enrichment & Research) at The Ohio State University.

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