Description
This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga, comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, ethics, adaptation, and translating comics connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond.
The Routledge Companion to Comics expertly organizes representative work from a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, literature, philosophy, and linguistics. More than an introduction to the study of comics, this book will serve as a crucial reference for anyone interested in pursuing research in the area, guiding students, scholars, and comics fans alike.
Table of Contents
Introduction, AaronMeskin, Roy TCook, FrankBramlett; Part 1 History and Traditions; Chapter 1 Origins of Early Comics and Proto-Comics, M. ThomasInge; Chapter 2 Newspaper Strips, PascalLefèvre; Chapter 3 The Comics Code, Amy KisteNyberg; Chapter 4 Underground and Alternative Comics, Roy TCook; Chapter 5 British Comics, ChrisMurray; Chapter 6 French and Belgian Comics, MarkMcKinney; Chapter 7 Canadian Comics, Brenna ClarkeGray; Chapter 8 Comics in Latin America, AnaMerino; Chapter 9 A Brief History of Comics in Italy and Spain, SimoneCastaldi; Chapter 10 Comics in India, JeremyStoll; Chapter 11 Eastern/Central European Comics, JoséAlaniz; Chapter 12 East Asian Comix, Adam L.Kern; Part 2 Comics Genres; Chapter 13 Art Comics, AndreiMolotiu; Chapter 14 Superhero Comics, Matthew J.Smith; Chapter 15 Journalistic Comics, KentWorcester; Chapter 16 Funny Animals, BrianCremins; Chapter 17 Erotic Comics, JustinHall; Chapter 18 Western Comics, WilliamGrady; Chapter 19 Horror Comics, David AnnwnJones; Chapter 20 War Comics, LeonardRifas; Chapter 21 Autobiographical Comics, Michael A.Johnson; Chapter 22 Silent Comics, BarbaraPostema; Chapter 23 Editorial Comics, MarkLong, ChrisLamb; Part 3 Issues and Concepts; Chapter 24 Defining Comics, AaronMeskin; Chapter 25 Comics and Adaptation, Henry JohnPratt; Chapter 26 Comics and Authorship, AdrielleMitchell; Chapter 27 Comics and Seriality, Christy MagUidhir; Chapter 28 Metacomics, Roy TCook; Chapter 29 Comics and Fandom, MatthewPustz; Chapter 30 Comics, Race, and Ethnicity, Andrew J.Kunka; Chapter 31 Comics and Gender, MelGibson; Chapter 32 LGBTQ Representation in Comics, AjuanMance; Chapter 33 Comics and Time, JanBaetens, CharlottePylyser; Chapter 34 Comics and Ethics, JonRobson; Chapter 35 Comics and Translation, JonathanEvans; Chapter 36 Comics and Criticism, Darren HudsonHick; Part 4 Other Media and Other Disciplines; Chapter 37 Comics and Film, CraigFischer; Chapter 38 Comics and Art, AnastasiaSalter; Chapter 39 Teaching and Learning with Comics, Carol L.Tilley, Robert G.Weiner; Chapter 40 Caricature and Comics, JohnHolbo; Chapter 41 Comics and Linguistics, FrankBramlett; Chapter 42 Comics and Literature, HannahMiodrag; Chapter 43 Comics in Libraries, RichardGraham; Chapter 44 Comics and Rhetoric, RandyDuncan; Chapter 45 Comics and Politics, MichaelGoodrum; Chapter 46 Comics and Cultural STUDIES, IanHague; Chapter 47 Comics, Children’s Literature, and Childhood Studies, LaraSaguisag;
