Published by De Gruyter

Comics Studies

Aesthetics, Histories, and Practices

Edited by: Jaqueline Berndt, Patrick Noonan, Karin Kukkonen and Stephan Packard

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This series expands the field of comics studies with research from around the world and across disciplines. It explores the aesthetics, histories, and practices of comics in order to build bridges between different academic traditions engaged in the study of all forms of sequential art and narrative. What makes a comic book? What are the effects of lines, panels, and page-layouts? How are comics produced, distributed, and read? The monographs and edited volumes in the series address such questions about the form from a variety of perspectives. We aim to further the emerging global discourse on comics by making truly innovative work in the field accessible to a broader community of critics and scholars. All volumes in the series are published in English and are peer-reviewed.

Series Editors: Jaqueline Berndt, Patrick Noonan, Karin Kukkonen, Stephan Packard

Advisory Board:

Daniele Barbieri (Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna)

Nandini Chandra (University of Hawaii)

Karl Ian U. Cheng Chua (Ateneo de Manila University)

Felix Giesa (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Felipe Gomez (Carnegie Mellon University)

Jan-Noël Thon (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Anne Magnussen (University of Southern Denmark)

Christina Meyer (TU Braunschweig)

Ann Miller (University of Leicester)

Katalin Orbán (Eötvös Loránd University)

Wendy Wong (York University)

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Comics and Agency

Vanessa Ossa, Jan-Noël Thon, Lukas R. A. Wilde

Volume 1 in this series

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This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, “authorship” can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754483
ISBN:: 9783110754483
ISBN:: 9783110754407
ISBN:: 9783110754575
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Graphic Novel
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter