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Squirrel the Stone is a handbook designed to encourage creativity and free thinking. Within these poetic pages, paved with seemingly random thoughts and poorly pixelated pictures, you will stumble upon a personal demonstration of creative rumination. Just be warned, this book may be small – but it is heavy. Let your mind wander and your…
Este libro busca reflejar el esfuerzo colectivo de profesionales, activistas y voluntarios que intentan aportar un enfoque no violento a la comunicación. La intención es poner al servicio de quienes lo encuentren útil fundamentos, principios, herramientas y sugerencias que configuren una base sólida, pero a la vez abierta y creativa, para un periodismo veraz con…
Though it is still not uncommon to hear the question “Comics? In libraries?!”, comics collections have existed in academic institutions for over fifty years. Libraries have taken a variety of approaches to address differing philosophies and needs for their collections, but discourse has typically focused on the practical concerns of management and organization, considering the…
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…
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…
To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement. Now an established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic novels are proving to be one of the last kinds of print publications actually gaining…
Segunda entrega, de tres, de este viaje alucinante a la década de los 90 que es 90 COMICS DE LOS 90. En él vas a encontrar desde cómics muy conocidos, que seguro recuerdas, a otros que te pasaron desapercibidos en su momento, e incluso algún otro que quizá ni siquiera conozcas, pero sobre el que…
Comics and serial print have a long, closely intertwined history, with the earliest comics proliferating in newspapers before gradually migrating to children’s magazines. In positioning itself between the booming research on comics and periodicals and comics and children’s culture, this book offers a transnational perspective on the diverse connections between the ninth art and magazines….
This book contributes to a growing body of work celebrating the visual methods and tools that aid knowledge transfer and welcome new audiences to social science research. Visual research methodological milestones highlight a trajectory towards the adoption of more creative and artistic media. As such, the book is dedicated to exploring the creative potential of…
This book analyses 1960s-1970s US underground comix, a ‘counterculture’ art form that satirised mainstream values and taboos. The author observes comix in their multimodal components in the original English-language versions and in their Italian translations by unpacking the several layers of verbal and visual meaning-making. She then goes on to scrutinise translation and resemiotisation processes,…
Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English. Written by nearly 100 international and contemporary experts from the field, the entries are succinctly defined, exemplified, and…
A collection of esoteric cartoons about editing, publishing, indexing, and freelancing, accumulated over ten years of monthly blogging at ivacheung.com. One dollar from each book sold goes toward supporting Indigenous editing and publishing initiatives through the Indigenous Editors Association.
N-SIGHT is tasked with saving the metaverse and she cannot do it alone, nor does she want to. She needs a special task force to help build and stock the time capsules that will restore balance to the metaverse. Who should be on the team? And why? In Volume 1 of the Learning Starts Here…
Qué tienen en común TintÃn, Astérix, Corto Maltés, Lucky Luke o Blake y Mortimer?Que siguen teniendo mucho que decir décadas después de su creación. SINOPSISColección de artÃculos sobre el mundo del cómic en los que también se habla de las otras disciplinas que le son hermanas: la literatura y el cine. Si te gusta el…
Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga…
Here is an in-depth guide to understanding, building, and managing an optimal collection of graphic novels that is targeted to please the format’s mamy dedicated adult fans. The book provides a helpful overview of the increasingly imporant role that graphic novels play in collection development. Serchay covers both American and foreign works and provides invaluable…
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