Horror and Comics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chamberlin, Barbara.

Contributor:

Kunyosying, Kom.

Round, Julia.

Series:

Horror Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : University of Wales Press, 2025.

La Vergne : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, 2025.

Summary:

This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures, histories) have contributed to the depiction and development of horror across many subgenres (folk horror, ecohorror, gothic romance and more); their chapters also show how horror has informed the development of comics across multiple periods, places and genres, from seventeenth-century broadsheets to newspaper strips, weeklies and contemporary graphic novels, spanning Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA. By considering well-known horror comics alongside understudied ones, this book re-examines and re-energises established concepts, such as the abject, the Other and closure, applying them to diverse texts, contexts, authors and audiences, and demonstrating the potential of comics and horror to encourage innovations of form and content in each other.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Crossing Genres, Blurring Boundaries

Chapter 1: Multimodal Mirroring in 'The Black Cat'

Chapter 2: Satanic Feminism and Decadent Aesthetics in Guido Crepax's 'Valentina' Comics

Chapter 3: The Living, the Dead and the Living Dead: Brazilian Horror Imagery and Genre isation in Shiko's Três Buracos

Chapter 4: Befriending the Past: The Genre-Bending Vanessa Comics Series (1982-91) and its Historical Context

Part II: Identity, Agency, Humanity

Chapter 5: 'I'm Not Who He Thinks I Am': Female Identity and Victimhood in Country Horror Comics

Chapter 6: 'What's One More Monster?': Articulations of Latinx Monstrosity and Whiteness in Border Town

Chapter 7: 'Still Pretty, Ain't She?': The Female Gaze and the Queer Monstrous Feminine in Itō Junji's Tomie

Chapter 8: Sinister Houses and Forbidden Loves: Queer Identity in DC's Gothic Romances

Part III: Society, Anxiety, Politics

Chapter 9: Abjection, Ambivalence and the Abyss in EC's New Trend Line

Chapter 10: The Power of a Demon and the Heart of a Human: The Darkness of Humanity in Devilman

Chapter 11: Comics and the Horrors of Reality

Chapter 12: 'REALITY Scarier than Any Boogeyman': Shock, Exploitation and Environmentalism in Slow Death Funnies

Afterwords

Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83772-257-9

OCLC:

1517362716