By Sebastian Domsch,Dan Hassler-Forest,Dirk Vanderbeke

Whether one calls it sequential artwork, image narrative or photo novels, comics have lengthy develop into a major a part of modern tradition. Their variety of expression comprises all kinds, genres and modes from excessive to low, from serial leisure for children to complicated artistic endeavors. This has result in a burgeoning curiosity in comics as a topic for scholarly research, and comics experiences is within the strategy of setting up itself as a huge department of feedback. This instruction manual, that's half within the greater sequence of Handbooks of English and American Studies, released by means of de Gruyter, will mix – within the spirit of the sequence – a scientific research of the topic with an summary over an important contexts and subject matters and a couple of shut readings of seminal or exemplary works. there's as of at the present time no related source to be had at the e-book marketplace. it will make the guide quintessential for a couple of readers, from scholars to researchers.

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