Chris Gavaler

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  • The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium

    The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium

    $36.95

    How does a comics reader understand that a certain race is assigned to a character? In The Color of Paper, Chris Gavaler establishes a formal approach for analyzing racial representations in comics, demonstrating that the ink-on-paper materiality of comics reveals the illogic of metaphorical colors as racial categorizations. Analyzing images by a wide range of…

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    Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World

    $25.95

    The past is fixed – what happened happened. But our descriptions of that past are in constant flux, creating branching networks of contradictory accounts more complex than any fictional franchise. Revising Reality uses pop culture and media concepts of revision to untangle our real-world histories – with startlingly revelatory results. Novels, comics, films, and TV…

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    Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World

    $80.00

    The past is fixed – what happened happened. But our descriptions of that past are in constant flux, creating branching networks of contradictory accounts more complex than any fictional franchise. Revising Reality uses pop culture and media concepts of revision to untangle our real-world histories – with startlingly revelatory results. Novels, comics, films, and TV…

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  • Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology

    Creating Comics: A Writer’s and Artist’s Guide and Anthology

    $37.95

    For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression – but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative process, with practical drawing exercises throughout and an anthology of comics demonstrating the eclectic possibilities of the form. Creating Comic covers: – Using images to conceive…

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  • The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

    The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

    $40.95

    Answering foundational questions like “what is a comic” and “how do comics work” in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so…

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    Superhero Comics

    $130.00

    A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals: -The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions-Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism, eugenics, KKK vigilantism,…

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    Superhero Comics

    $37.95

    A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals: -The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions-Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism, eugenics, KKK vigilantism,…

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  • The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

    The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

    $130.00

    Answering foundational questions like “what is a comic” and “how do comics work” in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so…

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