TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baetens,Jan
AU  - Beaty,Bart
AU  - Cates,Isaac
AU  - Gibson,Mel
AU  - Gordon,Ian
AU  - Hatfield,Charles
AU  - Kuhlman,Martha
AU  - Lunning,Frenchy
AU  - Macauley,Brian
AU  - Mcallister,Matthew P.
AU  - Molotiu,Andrei
AU  - Nel,Philip
AU  - Sabin,Roger
AU  - Sinervo,Kalervo
AU  - Singer,Marc
AU  - Tensuan,Theresa
AU  - Tien,Shannon
AU  - Wershler,Darren
AU  - Whitlock,Gillian
AU  - Woo,Benjamin
TI  - Comics Studies: A Guidebook 
SN  - 9780813591452
U1  - 741.5072 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - comics, comics studies, history, form, audiences, genre, cultural, industrial, economic contexts, comics scholars, Jonathan Chau, Bart Beaty, Charles Hatfield, Ian Gordon, Roger Sabin, Isaac Cates, comic industry, Benjamin Woo, Frenchy Lunning, children, Girls, Women, Mel Gibson, Darren Wershler, Kalervo Sinervo, Shannon Tien, digiral comics, Film, Media Studies, Communications, Literary Studies, American Studies, Graphic Novels, Social Science, arts, popular culture, Nonfiction
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and brings together myriad traditions. Comics Studies: A Guidebook offers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. It opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts. An invaluable one-stop resource for veteran and new comics scholars alike, this guidebook represents the state of the art in contemporary comics scholarship
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813591452
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813591452
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813591452/original
ER  -