Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a
unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics,
ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this
collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream
superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European
adventure classics. Included among the contributions are essays on
existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel Ghost World,
ecocriticism in Paul Chadwick's long-running Concrete series, and
political philosophies in Herge's perennially popular The
Adventures of Tintin. Modern political concerns inform Terry
Kading's discussion of how superhero comics have responded to 9/11
and how the genre reflects the anxieties of the contemporary world.
Essayists also explore the issues surrounding the development and
appreciation of comics. Amy Kiste Nyberg examines the rise of the
Comics Code, using it as a springboard for discussing the ethics of
censorship and child protection in America. Stanford W. Carpenter
uses interviews to analyze how a team of Marvel artists and writers
reimagined the origin of one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes,
Captain America. Throughout, essayists in Comics as Philosophy show
how well the form can be used by its artists and its interpreters
as a means of philosophical inquiry. Jeff McLaughlin is assistant
professor of philosophy at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops,
British Columbia.
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