This volume showcases some of the best research published in the Studies in Comics journal.
Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships with other media, and been dynamic in their response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection explores interactions between comics and other media and technologies, employing a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives.
By focusing on key critical concepts within multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analog, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), this collection expands and develops existing comics theory and addresses multiple other media and disciplines. This volume demonstrates the evolution of comics studies over the last decade and shows how this research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a continuously evolving, multimodal artistic and production environment.
List of Figures Foreword Roger Sabin Introduction Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round SECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY The Shape of Comic Book Reading A. David Lewis Re-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Regis Loisel’s Peter Pan Armelle Blin-Rolland The Myth of Eco: Cultural Populism and Comics Studies Marc Singer Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults Pascal Lefèvre SECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL Spiegelman’s Magic Box: MetaMaus and the Archive of Representation Elisabeth R. Friedman Meaning from Movement: Blurring the Temporal Border between Animation and Comics Joshua Gowdy SECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE Narrative, Language, and Comics-as-Literature Hannah Miodrag The Cognitive Grammar of ‘I’: Viewing Arrangements in Graphic Autobiographies Christian W. Schneider SECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION Sound Affects: Visualizing Music, Musicians, and (Sub)Cultural Identity in BECK and Scott Pilgrim Camilo Diaz Pino The Musicalization of Graphic Narratives and P. Craig Russell’s Graphic Novel Operas, 'The Magic Flute' and 'Salome' Victoria Addis SECTION FIVE: FROM MATERIAL TO TRANSTEXTUAL AND BEYOND 'Animating' the Narrative in Abstract Comics Paul Fisher Davies Multimodal Duck-Rabbitry: Multistable Perception and the Narrative Potential of Fold-Ins Thomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross Watkins Resisting Narrative Immersion Greice Schneider Square Eyes: Augmenting Bodies, Boredom, and Things Merlyn Seller Afterword Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round Notes on Contributors Index
Madeline Gangnes is an assistant professor of English at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, USA. She is a co-editor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials. Her work appears in Studies in Comics, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the Victorian Periodicals Review, and Key Terms in Comics Studies, among other publications. Professor Christopher Murray is professor of Comics Studies and English Literature in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He leads the Masters in Comics and Graphic Novels and is director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies and Dundee Comics Creative Space. He is a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics. Julia Round’s books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is associate professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and one of the founders and co-editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.
