Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner,
Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny
Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob
Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp,
Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics World: Comic
Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to
explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of
comics from a social-scientific point of view. Designed to promote
interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and methods in comics
studies, this volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as
sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication
studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of
comics and graphic novels. Taking the concept of a ""comics
world""-that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions
that ""produce"" comics as they are-as its organizing principle,
the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how
comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a
specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of
their publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and
journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars
themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some
of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the
relationships created in these spaces can provide different
perspectives on comics and comics studies. Moving beyond the page,
The Comics World explores the complexity of the lived reality of
the comics world: how comics and graphic novels matter to different
people at different times, within a social space shared with
others.
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