EcoComix : essays on the environment in comics and graphic novels / edited by Sidney I. Dobrin.

"Exploring image and imagination in conjunction with natural environments, the animal, and the human, this collection of essays turns the ecocritical and ecocompositional gaze upon comic studies. The comic form has a long tradition of representing environmental rhetoric. Through discussions of comic...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dobrin, Sidney I., 1967- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jefferson North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
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Physical Description:vi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • EcoComix: An Introduction / Sidney I. Dobrin)
  • The Threat of (Non)Normative Nature: Queer Ecology in H2O and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge / Ashley Holland
  • The Middle Voice of EcoComix: Reading Philippe Squarzoni's Climate Changed / Terry Harpold
  • Virtual Farmer, Real Activist? Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang's In Real Life / Anastasia Salter
  • The "GUD," the "BAD" and the Biorg: Reading the Postanimal in We3 / Melissa Bianchi
  • Follow the Concrete Submersible / Sidney I. Dobrin
  • "Where You Create Life": Monsters and Nature in Black Orchid / Spencer Chalifour
  • How the Comic Book Store Became Ecological / Aaron Kashtan
  • Trees, Anti-Advocacy and Visual Rhetoric in Truax (A Parody of The Lorax) / Madison Jones
  • Treacherous Fields and Bunny Girls: Representations of Nature in Yuu Watase's Alice 19th / Catherine Kyle
  • Killing Oliver Queen: Environmentalist Meaning and Demeaning in Green Arrow / Eric C. Otto.