Comics and Agency / ed. by Jan-Noël Thon, Vanessa Ossa, Lukas R. A. Wilde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahrens, Jörn, Contributor.

Backe, Hans-Joachim, Contributor.

Becker, Romain, Contributor.

Bock, Anke Marie, Contributor.

Burton, Jessica, Contributor.

Eggert, Barbara Margarethe, Contributor.

Gibson, Mel, Contributor.

Glötter, Laura, Contributor.

Hibbett, Mark, Contributor.

Jenkins, Henry, Contributor.

Lehnerer, Cathérine, Contributor.

Ossa, Vanessa, Contributor.

Ossa, Vanessa, Editor.

Pizzino, Christopher, Contributor.

Schneider, Greice, Contributor.

Shah, Ashumi, Contributor.

Smith, Matthew J., Contributor.

Thon, Jan-Noël, Contributor.

Thon, Jan-Noël, Editor.

Wilde, Lukas R. A., Contributor.

Wilde, Lukas R. A., Editor.

Series:

Comics Studies

Comics Studies : Aesthetics, Histories, and Practices ; 1

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, “authorship” can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Comics and Agency

What We Do with Comics: The Agency of Collectors in Dylan Horrock’s Hicksville

Tintin’s Global Journey: Editors as Invisible Actors behind the Comics Industry of the 1960s

How a German Publisher Appropriates Comics It Did Not Originally Publish

The Agents of Doom: An Empirical Approach to Transmedia Actors

Agency in the Making: Distribution and Publication as Topics in Nikolas Mahler’s Die Goldgruber Chroniken and the Anthology Drawn & Quarterly

Comics Artist versus Artistic Genius: Kverneland and Fiske’s Approach to Artists, Metafiction, and Allusion to Contemporary Sources in Kanon

Death of the Endless and Fan Projections

“I Always Win”: Corporate Comics, Delinquent Fans, and the Body of Richard C. Meyer

Pilgrimage to Hall H: Fan Agency at Comic-Con

Librarians, Agency, Young People, and Comics: Graphic Account and the Development of Graphic Novel Collections in Libraries in Britain in the 1990s

Learning from Pupils about Conviviality

Ada in the Jungle and Aya of Yop City: Negotiating “Africa” in Comics

Telling Stories with Photo Archives: Intermedial Agency in Documentary Comics

Who Controls the Speech Bubbles? Reflecting on Agency in Comic-Games

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

ISBN:

9783110754483

3110754487

OCLC:

1349351778