Comics Studies
The Key Concepts
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:5th Feb '26
£39.99
This title is due to be published on 5th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Comics Studies. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in the field.
At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, the book’s entries provide an essential overview of the key concepts in the field of Comics Studies, as shaped by historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. The 22 concepts covered include:
• Adaptation
• Aesthetics
• Animals
• Architecture
• Autobiography
• Censorship
• Convergence
• Empire & Postcolonial
• Feminism
• History
• Indigeneity
• Intersectionality
• Language
• LGBTQ
• Memoir
• Mind/Bodies
• Race
• Regionalism
• Sacred
• Social Movements
• Speculative
• Youth
Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading and a glossary, Comics Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for students of media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, gender and women’s studies, and literature that are studying comics and graphic novels.
"Aldama charts the impossible. He forges the compass that navigates Comics Studies across our vast planetary system of comics—from theories of comics grammatexts built from the Bayeux tapestry and Mesoamerican codices, to insights into Herriman's boundary-shattering Krazy Kat and mind-blowing race-speculative word-drawn narratives that demolish and rebuild the rules of representation. His 22 Key Concepts do more than mark destinations—they blast open portals to unexplored territories, revealing new comics galaxies!"
John Jennings, Multi-Eisner Award-winning comics creator and Professor at the University of California, Riverside
ISBN: 9780367196875
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430 pages