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This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics. Contributors discuss comics made specifically for web consumption, and also digital reproductions of print-comics. Written for those who may not be familiar with digital comics or digital comic scholarship, the essays cover perspectives on reading, criticism and analysis of specific titles, the global reach of digital comics, and how they can be used in educational settings.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Digital Comics—Savior or Destroyer of a Medium? (Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff and Mike P. Cook)
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Experiencing the Infinite: An Introduction to Digital Comics Phenomenology Through Marvel Infinite Comics (Jayson Quearry)
Considering ComiXology's Guided View (Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff)
Re-Theorizing the Infinite Canvas: A Space for Comics
and Rhetorical Theories (Rich Shivener)
Documentary Webcomics: Mediality and Contexts (Johannes C.P. Schmid)
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It Came from the Woods (Most Strange Things Do):
Emily Carroll's Through the Woods and Interactive
Internet Reading (Eden Lee Lackner)
Death's "Friend Hug": Analyzing the Personification
of Death in Three Webcomics (Karis Jones)
MAUS (W)HOLES: Reflections on (and in) the Digitization
of Art Spiegelman's MAUS (John Logie)
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When Funding Is the Issue That Prevents an Issue: Are Digital Comics the Logical Platform of Production in a South African Context? (Ray Whitcher)
Digital Comics in Francophone Countries: Never Too Late
to Be Creative (Chris Reyns-Chikuma and Jean Sébastien)
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Upwards and Backwards: Blurred Perspectives on Digital
Comics as Mentor Texts (Teri Holbrook, Melanie Hundley and Bill Holbrook)
Using Digital Comics to Support Information Literacy:
21st Century Research Skills and Authentic Composing (Mike P. Cook and Luke Rodesiler)
Afterword: Losing My Edge (Drew Morton)
About the Contributors
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