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Issue 3.2 Previous Issues

Framing Comics Words

Harriet Earle October 17, 2014 No Comments 9/11 Art Spiegelman Asterix Bill Wray bubble comics Dust Jason Keith Giffen narrative form Scott McCloud silent comics The Yellow Kid trauma comics traumatic representation Will Eisner

Many aspects of the comics form have entered popular consciousness but none is quite as ubiquitous as the bubble. In order to work as a narrative form, comics are required to make visible…

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Issue 2.3 Previous Issues

Identity and Consciousness in Dial H

Christina Scholz May 13, 2013 9 Comments Alan Moore Boy Chimney China Mieville comics D.C.Dial H Erich Origen Frank Miller Gan Golan graphic narrative Jacen Burrows Mateus Santolouco Neil Gaiman New 52 panel composition panel design Perdido Street Station Sandman serialised narrative superheroes The Adventures of Unemployed Man The Courtyard The Dark Knight Returns Watchmen

With DC’s “New 52” reboot of Dial H China Miéville has re-entered the genre of comics after a guest episode of Hellblazer and a much-discussed but ultimately…

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Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics

Harriet Earle January 12, 2013 4 Comments 9/11 Alan Moore Art Spiegelman Batman closure comics comics scholarship Dark Knight Returns Dave Gibbon DC Comics Fantagraphics Books form formal analysis Frank Miller genre gutter Marjane Satrapi panel transitions Persepolis Scott McCloud Sin City superheroes The Real Thing The Spirit Unreal Watchmen Will Eisner

Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form…

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Issue 1.6 Previous Issues

Superhumanity: Refiguring the Superhero

Sarah Chihaya November 1, 2012 No Comments Barack Obama Black Panther California Christopher Nolan comics Democratic National Convention 2004 fiction genre Incredible Hulk John Carter Jonathan Letham Joss Whedon Juno Diaz Kavalier and Clay Mark Ruffalo Marvel Universe Michael Chabon novel reading Secret Skin Spiderman 2 superhero fatigue superheroes superhuman Telegraph Avenue The Avengers The Dark Knight Rises Wakanda

Like the urban thoroughfare it’s named after, Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) contains diverse and highly specific multitudes. It is a…

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