Comics Studies : : A Guidebook / / ed. by Bart Beaty, Charles Hatfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Baetens, Jan,; Beaty, Bart,; Cates, Isaac,; Gibson, Mel,; Gordon, Ian,; Hatfield, Charles,; Kuhlman, Martha,; Lunning, Frenchy,; Macauley, Brian,; Mcallister, Matthew P.,; Molotiu, Andrei,; Nel, Philip,; Sabin, Roger,; Sinervo, Kalervo,; Singer, Marc,; Tensuan, Theresa,; Tien, Shannon,; Wershler, Darren,; Whitlock, Gillian,; Woo, Benjamin,
• HerausgeberIn: Beaty, Bart,; Hatfield, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 28 color images

Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, instituti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Histories
• 1. Comic Strips
• 2. Comic Books
• 3. Underground and Alternative Comics
• 4. European Traditions
• 5. Manga
• 6. The Graphic Novel
• Part II. Cultures
• 7. Comics Industries
• 8. Readers, Audiences, and Fans
• 9. Children and Comics
• 10. Difference
• Part III. Forms
• 11. Cartooning
• 12. Design in Comics: Panels and Pages
• 13. Words and Images
• Part IV. Genres
• 14. Superheroes
• 15. Autographics
• 16. Girls, Women, and Comics
• 17. Digital Comics
• Time Line of Selected Events
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index