Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter

Darowski, John (Editor)/ Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel (Editor)

ISBN 10: 103219944X / ISBN 13: 9781032199443

Published by Routledge, 2024

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268 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.21 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103219944X
• ISBN 13: 9781032199443
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.

Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. Without neglecting the classical era, the book presents case studies ranging from the mainstream comics to the independents, simultaneously offering new critical insights on zones of vacancy within the study of horror comic books while examining a global selection of horror comics from countries such as India (City of Sorrows), France (Zombillénium), Spain (Creepy), Italy (Dylan Dog), and Japan (Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft), as well as the United States.

One of the first books centered exclusively on close readings of an under-studied field, this collection will have an appeal to scholars and students of horror comics studies, visual rhetoric, philosophy, sociology, media studies, pop culture, and film studies. It will also appeal to anyone interested in comic books in general and to those interested in investigating intricacies of the horror genre.

About the Author

John Darowski is a PhD candidate in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville, USA. He has edited an essay collection on Superman adaptations (2021) and has published several essays on the history of superheroes.

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (PhD) works at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He teaches courses on international horror films and has authored a book about Spanish horror TV series Historias para no Dormir (2019) and has edited a book on James Wan's films.