Super Bodies : : Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact / / Jeffrey A. Brown.
An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 82 illustrations |
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520 | |a An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustration-idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noir-examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning. Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative, Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that superheroes are to be taken not as representations of people but as iconic types, and the art conveys this. Even the most realistic comic illustrations are designed to suggest not persons but ideas-ideas about bodies and societies. Thus the appearance of superheroes both directly and indirectly influences the story being told as well as the opinions readers form concerning justice, authority, gender, puberty, sexuality, ethnicity, violence, and other concepts central to political and cultural life. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023) | |
650 | 0 | |a Comic books, strips, etc. |x Illustrations |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Comic books, strips, etc. |x Illustrations |x Social aspects. | |
650 | 0 | |a Comic books, strips, etc. |x Illustrations |x Themes, motives. | |
650 | 0 | |a Superheroes |v Comic books, strips, etc. | |
650 | 0 | |a Superheroes |x Social aspects. | |
650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a Superheroes, Comic Books, Art Styles, Illustration, Artists, Popular Culture, Comics Industry, Graphic Narratives, Artistic Genres, Popular Literature, Jim Lee, Darwyn Cooke, Joe Shuster, Tim Sale, Humberto Ramos, Alex Ross, Alex Maleev, Andrea Sorrentino. | ||
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