Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships to other media, and been dynamic in their response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection explores interactions between comics, other media and technologies, employing a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives.
By focusing on key critical concepts within multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analogue, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), it expands and develops existing comics theory and also addresses multiple other media and disciplines.
Over the last decade Studies in Comics has been at the forefront of international research in comics. This volume showcases some of the best research to appear in the journal. In so doing it demonstrates the evolution of Comics Studies over the last decade and shows how this research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a continuously evolving artistic and production environment. The theme of multimodality is particularly apt since media and technologies have changed significantly during this period. The collection will thus give a view of the ways in which comics scholars have engaged with multimodality during a time when “modes” were continually changing.
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List of Figures
Foreword
Roger Sabin
Introduction
Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round
SECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY
A. David Lewis
Armelle Blin-Rolland
Marc Singer
Pascal Lefèvre
SECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL
Elisabeth R. Friedman
Joshua Gowdy
SECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE
Hannah Miodrag
Christian W. Schneider
SECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION
Camilo Diaz Pino
Victoria Addis
SECTION FIVE: FROM MATERIAL TO TRANSTEXTUAL AND BEYOND
Paul Fisher Davies
Thomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross Watkins
Greice Schneider
Merlyn Seller
Afterword
Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round
Notes on Contributors
Index
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Julia Round’s research explores the intersections of Gothic, comics and children’s literature. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (Mc Farland, 2014), the award-winning Gothic for Girls (University Press of Mississippi, 2019), the co-authored Comics and Graphic Novels (Bloomsbury, 2022) and over fifty peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She has also co-edited books such as the Companion to Literary Media (Routledge, 2023), Multimodal Comics (Intellect, 2024) and special journal issues including Gothic Studies 25:3 (2023) and The Comics Grid (2023). She is associate professor of English and comics studies at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, one of the founding editors of Studies in Comics journal (Intellect Books) and the Encapsulations book series (UP Nebraska), and co-organizer of the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (IGNCC).
Contact: Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, UK.
Web address: www.juliaround.com