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Author:   Casey Brienza ,  Paddy Johnston
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   5.308kg
ISBN:  

9781137554772

ISBN 10:   1137554770
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   21 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

.Introduction; Casey Brienza and Paddy Johnston.- Part I: Locating Labor.- 1 Between Art and the Underground in India; Jeremy Stoll.- 2 For the Love of the Craft: Industry, Identity, and Australian Comics; Amy Louise Maynard.- 3 Imagining US-Mexican Cooperation in the World War II Propaganda Comic Book Nuestro Futuro; Elena D. Hristova.- 4 From Turtles to Topatoco: A Brief History of Comics Production in the Pioneer Valley; Ryan Cadrette.- 5 Recognizing Comics as Brazilian National Popular Culture: CEPTA and the Debates over Professional Identities in Comics; Ivan Lima Gomes.- 6 Gatekeeping by Belgian Comics Publishing Houses Dupuis and Lombard in the mid-1980s; Pascal Lefèvre.- Part II: Illustrating Workers.- 7 An Anatomy of Collaboration in Comics: Romantic Genius vs. The Team; Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins.- 8 Creating Comics as Artisans: The Comics Creators of Columbia, 1998-2014; Fernando Suárez and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed.- 9 Under the Radar: John Porcellino's King-Cat Comics and Self-Publishing as Cultural Work; Paddy Johnston.- 10 Bearing Witness and Telling It How It Is: The Collaborative Creation of Dans les griffes de la vipère; Annick Pelligrin.- 11 Negotiating Artistic Identity in Comics Collaboration; Ahmed Jameel.- 12 Comic Book Rock Stars? Making Sense of Work in Comics; Benjamin Woo.- Part III: Pushing the Boundaries.- 13 Subcultural Clusters and Blurry Boundaries: Localized Manga Production in Hungary; Zoltan Kacsuk.- 14 The Tail That Wags the Dog: The Impact of Distribution on the Development and Direction of the American Comics Industry; David K. Palmer.- 15 Drawing Fatherhood: The Working Father Figure in the Autobiographical Novels of Guy Delisle; Roei Davidson.- 16 Towards Maturity: Analyzing the Tetrahedral System of the Comics Industry in Spain; José Andrés Santiago Iglesias.- 17 Crowdfunding and Comics in Brazil; André Pereira de Carvalho.- 18 A Fumetto, a Comic, and a BD Walk into a Bar: Translation of Humor in Comics; Alex Valente.

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Casey Brienza is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries at City University London, UK. She is author of Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics and editor of Global Manga: “Japanese” Comics without Japan?. Paddy Johnston is a comics scholar, cartoonist, and writer, currently working as a Doctoral Researcher in the English department at the University of Sussex, UK. He has published articles on comics in The Comics Grid, Comics Forum, and Networking Knowledge.

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