A comics studies reader

University Press of Mississippi

2009

380 p.

9781617035500

Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Are Comics Still in Search of Cultural Legitimization?; HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Rodolphe Töpffer's Aesthetic Revolution; How Comics Came to Be: Through the Juncture of Word and Image from Magazine Gag Cartoons to Newspaper Strips, Tools for Critical Appreciation plus Rare Seldom Witnessed Historical Facts; The "Vulgar" Comic Strip; Excerpt from Seduction of the Innocent; William Gaines and the Battle over EC Comics; The Comics Debates Internationally; The Definition of the Superhero; Two Boys from the Twin Cities; CRAFT, ART, FORM; CaricatureBeyond Comparison; The Impossible Definition; An Art of Tensions; The Arrow and the Grid; The Construction of Space in Comics; The Acoustics of Manga; CULUTURE, NARRATIVE, IDENTITY; Ally Sloper: The First Comics Superstar?; Jackie and the Problem of Romance; Home Loving and Without Vices; Autobiography as Authenticity; Manga versus Kibyõshi; Beyond Shoujo, Blending Gender; SCRUTINY AND EVALUATION; The Innocents March into History; The Garden in the Machine; An examination of "Master Race"; The Comics of Chris Ware; Transcending Comics: Crossing the Boundaries of the Medium; History and Graphic Representation in MausContributors; Index.

A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels. The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, romance comics, and superheroes. It explores the stylistic achievements of manga, the international anti-comics campaign, and power and class in Mexican comic books and English illustrated stories.

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