Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics

Description

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds illuminates how comics express what characters and narrators see, think, and feel. Drawing on the narratological concept of focalization, which describes the filtering of a story through the minds of characters and narrators, Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri analyze comics from a range of genres, including graphic memoir, graphic historiography, silent comics, and metafictional comics. Through a series of close readings–including Jason Lutes’s Berlin, Charles Burns’s Black Hole, Ellen Forney’s Marbles, Eric Drooker’s Flood!, and Craig Thompson’s Habibi–Horstkotte and Pedri argue that the visual form of comics storytelling is uniquely suited to invite readers into storyworld experiences. The authors break down the ways focalization in comics is cued by features such as color, style, panel size and positioning, and genre–showing how these features regulate how readers access the experiences of characters and narrators.

Product Details

Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Publish Date
February 15, 2026
Format
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780814258293
ISBN-10
0814258298

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Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics

Description

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds illuminates how comics express what characters and narrators see, think, and feel. Drawing on the narratological concept of focalization, which describes the filtering of a story through the minds of characters and narrators, Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri analyze comics from a range of genres, including graphic memoir, graphic historiography, silent comics, and metafictional comics. Through a series of close readings–including Jason Lutes’s Berlin, Charles Burns’s Black Hole, Ellen Forney’s Marbles, Eric Drooker’s Flood!, and Craig Thompson’s Habibi–Horstkotte and Pedri argue that the visual form of comics storytelling is uniquely suited to invite readers into storyworld experiences. The authors break down the ways focalization in comics is cued by features such as color, style, panel size and positioning, and genre–showing how these features regulate how readers access the experiences of characters and narrators.

Product Details

Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Publish Date
May 12, 2022
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780814215029
ISBN-10
0814215025
Dimensions
9.1 × 6.1 × 1.0 in
Weight
1.05 lbs

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