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No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of
the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE.
Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and
methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars
while still remaining accessible to students. By including
discussions of fragmentary authors alongside Aristophanes, the
collection provides a broad understanding of the richness of
Athenian comedy. The collection showcases the best of the new
scholarship on Old and Middle Comedy, using the most up-to-date
texts and tools. No Laughing Matter has been prepared in tribute to
Professor Ian Storey of Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario),
whose work on Athenian comedy will continue to shape scholarship
for many years to come.
Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul;
Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for new worlds to conquer.
Comics use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to
enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they
present. Son of Classics and Comics explores that rich interaction.
This volume presents thirteen original studies of representations
of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the
foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics
(OUP, 2011), Kovacs and Marshall have gathered a wide range of
studies with a new, global perspective. Chapters are helpfully
grouped to facilitate classroom use, with sections on receptions of
Homer, on manga, on Asterix, and on the sense of a 'classic' in the
modern world. All Greek and Latin are translated. Lavishly
illustrated, the volume widens the range of available studies on
the reception of the Greek and Roman worlds in comics
significantly, and deepens our understanding of comics as a
literary medium. Son of Classics and Comics will appeal to students
and scholars of classical reception as well as comics fans.
Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop
time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on)
material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At
times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's
Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with
Hercules' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But
all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of
classics in modern literary culture.
Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of
classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic
book. This volume collects sixteen articles, all specially
commissioned for this volume, that look at how classical content is
deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience. It opens
with a detailed historical introduction surveying the role of
classical material in comics since the 1930s. Subsequent chapters
cover a broad range of topics, including the incorporation of
modern theories of myth into the creation and interpretation of
comic books, the appropriation of characters from classical
literature and myth, and the reconfiguration of motif into a modern
literary medium. Among the well-known comics considered in the
collection are Frank Miller's 300 and Sin City, DC Comics' Wonder
Woman, Jack Kirby's The Eternals, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and
examples of Japanese manga. The volume also includes an original
12-page "comics-essay," drawn and written by Eisner Award-winning
Eric Shanower, creator of the graphic novel series Age of Bronze.
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