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    Comics Studies
    A Guidebook

    Charles Hatfield (Edited by), Bart Beaty (Edited by)

    9780813591421

    Hardback, published 14 August 2020

    336 pages, 28 color images
    23.5 x 15.6 x 4.3 cm, 0.481 kg

    "The margins of Hatfield and Beaty's comics studies are where some of the most interesting and innovative research on and around comics has been or is being conducted by scholars who will not find themselves or their work represented in this edited collection."
    — Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society

    "With Comic Studies: A Guidebook, Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (both top of their game) bring together a dream team of top researchers to produce a foundational collection that is going to be a cornerstone for all future research in this field. Each essay is not only encyclopedic in its synthesis of existing research but expands our knowledge of comics history and our conceptual understanding of how comics operates as an industry, as a set of social practices, as a confluence of genres, as a readership, and as an array of formal practices."
    — Henry Jenkins, author of Comics and Stuff

    "Very up-to-date and worth a closer look. Using 17 bite-sized articles, each ten to twenty pages long, the authors of the volume introduce the subject of comic studies."
    — Comicgate.de

    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.
     

    Timeline of Selected Events
    Jonathan Chau, Bart Beaty, and Charles Hatfield
    Introduction
    Bart Beaty and Charles Hatfield
    Part I 
     
    Histories
    Chapter 1 
    Comic Strips
    Ian Gordon
    Chapter 2 
    Comic Books
    Charles Hatfield
    Chapter 3 
    Underground and Alternative Comics
    Roger Sabin
    Chapter 4 
    European Traditions
    Bart Beaty
    Chapter 5 
    Manga
    Frenchy Lunning
    Chapter 6 
    The Graphic Novel
    Isaac Cates
    Part II 
     
    Cultures
    Chapter 7 
    Comics Industries
    Matthew P. McAllister and Brian MacAuley
    Chapter 8 
     
    Readers, Audiences, and Fans
    Benjamin Woo
    Chapter 9 
     
    Children and Comics
    Philip Nel
    Chapter 10 
    Differences
    Theresa Tensuan
    Part III 
     
    Forms
    Chapter 11 
     
    Cartooning
    Andrei Moltiu
    Chapter 12 
     
    Design in Comics: Panels and Pages
    Martha Kuhlman
    Chapter 13 
     
    Words and Images
    Jan Baetens
    Part IV 
     
    Genres
    Chapter 14 
    Superheroes
    Marc Singer
    Chapter 15 
     
    Autographics
    Gillian Whitlock
    Chapter 16 
     
    Girls, Women, and Comics
    Mel Gibson
    Chapter 17 
     
    Digiral Comics
    Darren Wershler, Kalervo Sinervo, and Shannon Tien
    Bibliography
    Notes on the Contributors

     
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