Multimodal Comics

Madeline B. Gangnes

ISBN 10: 1789389496 / ISBN 13: 9781789389494

Published by Intellect, GB, 2024

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multimodal Comics
• Publisher: Intellect, GB
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789389496
• ISBN 13: 9781789389494
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 742 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This volume showcases some of the best research published in the Studies in Comics journal.

Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships with other media, and have been dynamic in their response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection explores interactions between comics and 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, analog, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), this collection expands and develops existing comics theory and addresses multiple other media and disciplines. This volume 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, multimodal artistic and production environment.
 

About the Authors

Madeline B. Gangnes is assistant professor of English at the University of Scranton. She is a co-editor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials.

Christopher Murray is chair of comics studies in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, UK. He leads the Masters in Comics and Graphic Novels and is director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies and Dundee Comics Creative Space. He is a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics.

Julia Round’s books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels and the award-winning Gothic for Girls. She is associate professor of English and comics studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.