...This chapter sets out a model for comics studies instruction that the author developed for use in ENGL 3830, Literature for the Intermediate Reader, a children's literature survey course offered at Western Michigan University to students majoring in education or the humanities. She emphasizes...

...Scholars are not only observers of the comics world but participants in it. As teachers and researchers, they constitute another public for comic books and graphic novels. In this interview, editors Jeremy Stoll and Benjamin Woo discuss the institutionalization of comics studies within higher...

... Danto Arthur Kurtzman Harvey Sacco Joe New Modernist Studies Comic books Graphic novels Comics studies modernism There will be no high and low cultural levels; one single and mighty art will prevail, understood equally by all, for they will all encounter themselves in it. —IVÁN HEVESY, “MASS...

... ‘system’ works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish amidst this verdant landscape of comics studies. These approaches seek to question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural...

... trends. This book familiarizes scholars, teachers, and students of American politics with the presidential and campaign content of comics, exhibiting how comics reflect and shape our political knowledge and attitudes. It is also written for comics studies scholars and students, offering the perspective...

... H Yahgulanaas Michael Nicoll Highwater Press language preservation Pauls Cole Shaggy Kayla Van Camp Richard González Christopher narrative permissibility Native Realities Robertson David Alexander Tso Theo Veregge Jeffrey Herman Matthew Indigenous comics Graphic novels Comics studies...

...In his review of the burgeoning Comics Studies field, John Lent reminds us that there are tremendous areas of scholarship still waiting to be excavated. His is a vision of further growth through interdisciplinary scholarship. In particular, we emphasize the need to understand political economy...

... for Girls and consider what Misty can tell us about current approaches to critical theory, gender studies and comics studies. It reflects on the value that Misty readers placed on ‘their’ comic, and the way in which childhood texts help shape our identities. It argues...

...This book offers a wide-ranging assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman’s Metropolis or Chris Ware’s Chicago...

... book TheGreat War (2013), a graphic history of World War I. First in the new series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists (see page 40 for details), this edited volume explores Sacco’s comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural...

..., circulation, and reception, The Comics World seeks to model an interdisciplinary comics studies that crosses the social science–humanities divide....

...Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen fundamentally altered the perception of American comic books and remains one of the medium’s greatest hits. Launched in 1986—“the year that changed comics” for most scholars in comics studies—Watchmen quickly assisted...

.... Contributors sometimes arrive at thoughtful consensus and at other times settle on productive disagreements. Ultimately, this collection aims to extend traditional lines of inquiry in both comics studies and modernist studies and to reveal overlaps between ostensibly disparate artistic practices and movements....

...In this chapter the editors offer an overview of the need for a comics pedagogy and center the work of this volume’s scholarship within traditions of comic studies, critical theory, and curriculum studies. Beaty Bart comics Steirer Gregory Comics Studies Society Forum for Comics and Graphic...

...In this chapter, Jonathan Flowers offers an important critique of some of the foundational tenets of comics studies and questions the epistemological grounding on which our pedagogies stand. By exploring how Scott McCloud’s work has shaped our field, Flowers deftly illustrates that this field...

... Robertson Black Rat Closser Herriman George Mitchell W J T North Michael Peppis Paul Ayres Jackson Krazy Kat Herriman Anachronistic aesthetic Little Tommy Lost Harold Gray Little Orphan Annie Comics studies How are we to interpret the above image (figure 13.1 )? ¹ The question...

...This conclusion argues that Comics Studies as an academic discipline needs to be able to account for the historical low cultural place of comics in American popular culture. Finally, the conclusion indicates a further horizon of difficulty for the Book History study of comics, the role of readers...

...This chapter contains the 2017 recollection by curator and professor Alvaro de Moya about the birth and growth of comics fandom in Brazil, and the organization of I Exposicao Internacional de Historias Quadrinhos, the first known international exhibition and comics studies...