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This book closely reads Mark Gruenwald’s Squadron Supreme for its complex, contradictory, yet ultimately productive engagement with the social dreaming of utopianism. Specifically, Squadron Supreme provides critical traction for readers to engage with the social dreaming of utopianism by asking how it depicts the pursuit of a radically alternative society, at what cost, and whether…
This book is about what happens to comics theory when we privilege the relationship between materiality and the body in the analysis of comics. Focusing on how these factors relate to making, technological reproduction and the experience of reading comics, it aims to establish a new theoretical model for comics studies.Through a close consideration of…
Through a study of both novels and comic books of 20th and 21st century, this book claims that it is not possible to create any narrative of exceptionalism without also manufacturing a sense of nostalgia for a past that may or may not have existed. Acts of personal or historical repair are central to such…
Racconti di Carnevale per Bambini – 30 Storie che uniscono tradizione e allegria Il volume è una raccolta di storie brevi, appositamente scritte in stampatello per facilitare le prime letture. Immergiti in avventure straordinarie con protagoniste le maschere di carnevale, che prendono vita in racconti di carnevale emozionanti e coinvolgenti. Ogni pagina è ricca di…
Contributions by José Alaniz, Michelle Bumatay, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Michael Kobre, Samantha Langsdale, Sheng-mei Ma, John Edward Martin, Peter Nagy, Anna F. Peppard, and Alison Wellford Origin Stories: Fans, Scholars, and the Superhero Comics That Shaped Their Identities brings together a diverse group of scholars, writers, and comics fans to explore how superhero comics intersect with…
Exploring how a once-obscure Charlton Comics character evolved into a complex, transmedia figure thanks to filmmaker James Gunn, Peacemaker: Satirizing the American Machismo delivers a sharp, accessible critique of toxic masculinity in American culture. Across five chapters, this book traces Peacemaker’s transformation from a one-note Cold War vigilante into a conflicted, satirical symbol of modern…
Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel Comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular comics for over a decade and, eventually, a multibillion-dollar film…
Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of Brown’s life and career, highlighting his role in the evolving comics landscape and tracing his journey from self-publishing minicomics on the streets of…
Although, for years, women were portrayed as one-dimensional beings, Indian graphic novels have come a long way from solely idealizing the Hindu/Vedic past to contemporary digital comics with augmented reality, where individual stories of women are shared and politicized. Drawing on a decade of women’s mis/representation across comics, graphic novels, and digital comics, the book…
Exploring the work of three publishing houses who publish Superhero Comics, this volume analyses their techniques of narration through open-ended plots, frequent re-boots of the storyline, extended story arcs, and a complex narrative while testing serious socio-political issues in the mode of fantasy.
New Left Comics examines the leftist radicalization in Sweden during the decade immediately succeeding 1968 through the lens of comic books. It uncovers the ways in which writers and artists used mainstream comics as a medium to teach and inform readers about various forms of injustices and inequality.
New Left Comics examines the leftist radicalization in Sweden during the decade immediately succeeding 1968 through the lens of comic books. It uncovers the ways in which writers and artists used mainstream comics as a medium to teach and inform readers about various forms of injustices and inequality.
Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States. Tracing moral panics from the mid-20th century to present-day radical cartoonists, this volume analyzes works from established creators like Alison Bechdel and Kelly Sue DeConnick alongside emerging cartoonists such as Laura Gao…
Although, for years, women were portrayed as one-dimensional beings, Indian graphic novels have come a long way from solely idealizing the Hindu/Vedic past to contemporary digital comics with augmented reality, where individual stories of women are shared and politicized. Drawing on a decade of women’s mis/representation across comics, graphic novels, and digital comics, the book…
This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly. An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and aesthetic close readings of some of Manouach’s books, engaging with comics’ own distinctive…
In a spirit of community and collective action, this volume offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements.
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