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Superhero comics and Scottish identity : the comics art of Frank Quitely / David John Boyd and Julie Briand-Boyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyd, David John.
- Braind-Boyd, Julie, author.
- Series:
- Studies in European comics and graphic novels ; 13.
- Studies in European comics and graphic novels ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quitely, Frank, 1968---Criticism and interpretation.
- Quitely, Frank.
- Comic books, strips, etc--Scotland.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Superheroes in comics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Path to Open
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity explores the life and career of Glasgow-born, Eisner Award-winning, and internationally acclaimed Marvel, DC, and Image Comics artist Frank Quitely. With a prolific career spanning more than three decades, Quitely played a pivotal role in the British superhero renaissance of the 1990s and 2000s and in the explosive emergence of the Scottish new wave of comics, a movement that included peers like Alan Grant, Mark Millar, and Grant Morrison, but has been underrepresented in both comics studies and Scottish studies. This work investigates questions of historical and contemporary expressions of Scottishness in transcultural comics genres such as superhero, science fiction, and fantasy. Framed through the lens of comics and literary genres, as well as their British and American editors, Quitely’s approach to Scottishness is oblique and self-reflexive; his expressions of Scottishness are tensely bound to current nuanced examinations of Scottish national, literary and historical subjectivity. His work oscillates between two axiomatic antipodes: the regional, provincial, and local versus the transnational, cosmopolitan, and global.This comprehensive study also features an in-depth interview with Quitely, as well as unearthed archives, sketchbooks, notes, and donated or personal artworks not available elsewhere."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Title from online title page (viewed on June 11, 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9789461666529
- 9461666527
- OCLC:
- 1521388464
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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