TY  - BOOK
AU  - Madeline B. Gangnes
AU  - Aidan Diamond
AU  - Lauranne Poharec
PY  - 2026
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2631-8725
SN  - 9781803743820
TI  - Comics
T2  - A Companion
DO  - 10.3726/b21537
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1408242
N2  - This book engages with the myriad meanings of “comics” through a wide range of texts and approaches, offering educators, students, and more a view of comics’ many nuances and complexities.  • The collection presents comics as physical objects: it incorporates dozens of physical and digital comics texts from around the globe.  • It presents comics as an artistic medium: it engages with a wide range of artistic styles, formats, materials, and production methods.  • It presents comics as a cultural phenomenon: it describes the ways in which comics have shaped, and have been shaped by, their historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.   Through examinations of genre, context, form, and transmediality, the volume provides both a broad overview of “comics” as a concept and a collection of close readings of individual texts, many of which have been overlooked or underdiscussed in existing scholarship.   Comics: A Companion expands the field and provides a point of entry for students and scholars looking to read comics beyond the mainstream.
KW  - Poharec, Diamond, Gangnes, a companion, materiality, adaptation, comics history, international comics cultures, autobiographical comics, underground comics, superheroes, zines, webcomics, manga, comic strips, bande dessinée, comix, graphic novels, comic books, comics scholarship, comics studies, comics
LA  - English
ER  -