Comics And Agency

Author : Vanessa Ossa,Jan-Noël Thon,Lukas R. A. Wilde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110754483

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Comics and Agency by Vanessa Ossa,Jan-Noël Thon,Lukas R. A. Wilde Pdf

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.

Author : Katie Skelly
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781683961598

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The Agency by Katie Skelly Pdf

For three grueling years, Katie Skelly gathered intelligence in the wilds of online, meticulously documenting a private universe of sass photography, fascist surgery, horny skeletons, yonic portals, thrill-seeking vegetation, and multitudinous wry glances and stammered phrases! Now the fruits of her labor may be readily plucked in the compendium of sexed-up webcomics you've been waiting for all your life!

Author : Paul Jenkins,Kyle Hotz,Image Comics,Top Cow Productions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : OCLC:646427239

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The Agency by Paul Jenkins,Kyle Hotz,Image Comics,Top Cow Productions Pdf

Author : Vanessa Ossa,Jan-Noël Thon,Lukas R. A. Wilde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110754575

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Comics and Agency by Vanessa Ossa,Jan-Noël Thon,Lukas R. A. Wilde Pdf

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.

Author : Marc Singer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477317099

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Breaking the Frames by Marc Singer Pdf

Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave into distinct camps—based primarily in cultural or literary studies—that attempt to dictate the boundaries of the discipline or else resist disciplinarity itself. The consequence is a growing disconnect in the ways that comics scholars talk to each other—or, more frequently, do not talk to each other or even acknowledge each other’s work. Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies surveys the current state of comics scholarship, interrogating its dominant schools, questioning their mutual estrangement, and challenging their propensity to champion the comics they study. Marc Singer advocates for greater disciplinary diversity and methodological rigor in comics studies, making the case for a field that can embrace more critical and oppositional perspectives. Working through extended readings of some of the most acclaimed comics creators—including Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, and Chris Ware—Singer demonstrates how comics studies can break out of the celebratory frameworks and restrictive canons that currently define the field to produce new scholarship that expands our understanding of comics and their critics.

Author : Katie Skelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1683966805

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The Agency by Katie Skelly Pdf

Each of the sex-positive short stories in this comics collection stars an agent who will go far-out (real far-out, like outer space) to accomplish her mission.

Author : Paul Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1582407762

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The Agency by Paul Jenkins Pdf

In the future, government law enforcement has become overwhelmed...enter The Agency. Through them justice is available...if you can afford it.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190917975

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The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector of publishing. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies looks at the field systematically, examining the history and evolution of the genre from a global perspective. This includes a discussion of how comic books are built out of shared aesthetic systems such as literature, painting, drawing, photography, and film. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, it explores how the term "global comics" has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that will drive the field in the years to come. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.

Author : Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780226829463

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Pulp Empire by Paul S. Hirsch Pdf

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strange relationship between high-level policy makers and a medium that even artists and writers often dismissed as a creative sewer. In Pulp Empire, Paul S. Hirsch uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government both attacked and appropriated comic books to help wage World War II and the Cold War, promote official—and clandestine—foreign policy and deflect global critiques of American racism. As Hirsch details, during World War II—and the concurrent golden age of comic books—government agencies worked directly with comic book publishers to stoke hatred for the Axis powers while simultaneously attempting to dispel racial tensions at home. Later, as the Cold War defense industry ballooned—and as comic book sales reached historic heights—the government again turned to the medium, this time trying to win hearts and minds in the decolonizing world through cartoon propaganda. Hirsch’s groundbreaking research weaves together a wealth of previously classified material, including secret wartime records, official legislative documents, and caches of personal papers. His book explores the uneasy contradiction of how comics were both vital expressions of American freedom and unsettling glimpses into the national id—scourged and repressed on the one hand and deployed as official propaganda on the other. Pulp Empire is a riveting illumination of underexplored chapters in the histories of comic books, foreign policy, and race.

Author : Bradford W. Wright
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801874505

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Comic Book Nation by Bradford W. Wright Pdf

A history of comic books from the 1930s to 9/11.

Author : Will Eisner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0393328090

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Invisible People by Will Eisner Pdf

One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.

Author : Christopher Cantwell
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302940447

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The United States Of Captain America by Christopher Cantwell Pdf

Collects The United States Of Captain America (2021) #1-5. Captain America’s shield has been stolen! Nobody understand its value — scientific, inspirational, sentimental and strategic — like the people who have wielded it, so Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson set out on a road trip across America to chase down the thief. But instead they find…the Captains! Everyday people from all walks of life who’ve taken up the mantle of Captain America to defend their communities. And for some reason, the shield thief wants all of them dead. Can Sam and Steve find them first? Christopher Cantwell and Dale Eaglesham celebrate the Sentinel of Liberty’s 80th anniversary with a tour across the United States of Captain America — and some of the industry’s brightest talents join the star-spangled quest, telling the inspirational stories of each new Captain!

Author : Simon Hanselmann
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683964445

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Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann Pdf

In March 2020, as the planet began to enter lockdown, acclaimed cartoonist Simon Hanselmann decided that what the world needed most was free, easily accessible entertainment, so he set out to make the greatest webcomic ever created! The result is also certain to be one of the most acclaimed and eagerly anticipated graphic novels of 2021. As the Covid-19 pandemic continued to escalate far beyond any reasonable expectations, Crisis Zone escalated right alongside, in real time, with daily posts on Instagram. Crisis Zone's battle mission was to amuse the masses: no matter how horrible and bleak everything seemed, at least Werewolf Jones wasn’t in your house! Over the course of 2020, Crisis Zone has amassed unprecedented amounts of new fans to the Megg and Mogg universe and is presented here, unabridged and uncensored, with a slew of added pages and scenes deleted from the webcomic, as well as an extensive “Director’s Commentary” from Hanselmann himself.

Author : Kristen Radtke
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781101870839

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Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke Pdf

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Forbes • Lit Hub • Electric Lit A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual, historical and personal, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here, and what will we leave behind? (With black-and-white illustrations throughout; part of the Pantheon Graphic Novel series)

Author : Stephanie Cooke,Insha Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Etch/Hmh Books for Young Readers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780358299516

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Oh My Gods! by Stephanie Cooke,Insha Fitzpatrick Pdf

When Karen leaves New Jersey to spend time with her enigmatic father on Mount Olympus, she is shocked to learn that her junior high classmates are gods and goddesses, and that one of them is turning people to stone.