Whaley co-authors book on comics studies
By: Office of Strategic Communication | 2021.06.09 | 09:57 am
University of Iowa Professor Deborah Whaley has co-authored a new book about the field of comics studies.
Released June 8 by NYU Press,
Keywords for Comics Studies introduces key terms, research traditions, debates and histories, and offers a sense of new frontiers emerging in the comics studies field.
The book of more than 50 essays provides an interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, as well as identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Keywords for Comics Studies presents analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally found only in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like ink, creator, border, and panel; conceptual terms such as trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms like zine, pornography, superhero, and manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets.