The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies
Kevin Patrick, Ally Shwed, Christopher Pizzino, Michelle Ann Abate, Jeffrey A. Brown, Jonathan Alexandratos, Torsa Ghosal, Sean Guynes, Benoit Crucifix, Nicholas E. Miller, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Sara B. Chaney, John Logan Schell, Susan Kirtley, Rachel R. Miller, Kin Wai Chu, Henry Jenkins, Randy Duncan, Lan Dong, David M. Ball, Sidonie Smith, Andrew J. Kunka, James Phelan, Nhora Lucía Serrano, Matthew J. Smith, Frederick Luis Aldama, Frank Bramlett, Michael A. Chaney, James J. Donahue, Julia Watson, Dale Jacobs, Shiamin Kwa, Dan Hassler-Forest, José Alaniz, Pavel Kořínek, Benjamin Woo, Maaheen Ahmed, Jan Baetens, Evan Thomas, Ian Gordon, Daniel F. Yezbick
Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector
of publishing.
The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies looks at the field systematically, examining the history and evolution of the genre from a global perspective. This includes a discussion of how comic books are built out of shared aesthetic systems such as literature, painting, drawing, photography, and
film. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, it explores how the term global comics has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that
will drive the field in the years to come. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
