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�Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don�t, then we now understand why we don�t understand.��Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessin�e in Context and Comic Invention �Maaheen Ahmed�s Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of �openness.� This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field.��Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader -Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don't, then we now understand why we don't understand.---Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context and Comic Invention -Maaheen Ahmed's Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of 'openness.' This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field.---Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don't, then we now understand why we don't understand. --Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context and Comic Invention Maaheen Ahmed's Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of 'openness.' This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field. --Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don t, then we now understand why we don t understand. Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context and Comic Invention Maaheen Ahmed s Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of openness. This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field. Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don t, then we now understand why we don t understand. Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context and Comic Invention Maaheen Ahmed s Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of openness. This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field. Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader Maaheen Ahmed's Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of 'openness.' This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field. --Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don't, then we now understand why we don't understand. --Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context and Comic Invention

Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don t, then we now understand why we don t understand. Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context and Comic Invention

Maaheen Ahmed's Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of 'openness.' This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field. --Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader

Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don't, then we now understand why we don't understand. --Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessin�e in Context and Comic Invention: The World's First Comic: Everything Before, After and Frank Quitely Maaheen Ahmed's Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of 'openness.' This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field. --Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader

Openness, and the notions of ambiguity and reader-generated meaning that it encapsulates, is central to the very way comics work. This book presents the concept coherently, before giving a mouth-watering overview of examples that draw upon comics from a wide range of genres, national traditions and languages, and time periods. We are left feeling that we understand comics as we never did before, or at least if we don't, then we now understand why we don't understand. --Laurence Grove, author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, including Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context and Comic Invention: The World's First Comic: Everything Before, After and Frank Quitely Maaheen Ahmed's Openness of Comics is exactly the sort of book comics studies needs. It is theoretically sophisticated, making an original, convincing use of the concept of 'openness.' This conceptual breakthrough will be of interest to anyone who thinks about comics and will shape future scholarship. Ahmed also discusses a wide array of American and European comics, many of which have not hitherto received the detailed analysis they deserve. Comics scholarship is coming into its own as a field of study, and this book is on the cutting edge of that field. --Jeet Heer, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium and A Comics Studies Reader

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Maaheen Ahmed, Brussels, Belgium, is currently funded by the FWO (Research Foundation-Flanders) and is a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University. In addition to contributing to several edited collections, Ahmed has published articles in, among others, SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture, Les Cahiers du GRIT, European Journal of American Studies, and International Journal of Comic Art.

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