The comics world : comic books, graphic novels, and their publics / edited by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll.

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"Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Woo, Benjamin (Editor) Stoll, Jeremy (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Subjects:	Comic books, strips, etc. > Social aspects. Graphic novels > Social aspects. Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism. Graphic novels > History and criticism. Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	xix, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Comic books, graphic novels, and their publics: introducing the comics world
Chapter 1: The comics workforce / Benjamin Woo
Chapter 2: The Melbourne scene: comics production, city spaces, and the creative industries / Amy Louise Maynard
Chapter 3: Women and Asian comic art: gendered genres, female portrayals, and women cartoonists / John A. Lent
Chapter 4: Bringing up manga: how editors in the 1920s and 1930s helped create contemporary Japanese comics / Eike Exner
Chapter 5: Reshaping comic books in a socialist regime: Quimantú, Para leer al Pato Donald and the Chilean's comics world during Unidad Popular: (1971
1973) / Ivan Lima Gomes
Chapter 6: Whatever happened to the comics press? The slow rise and rapid fall of a niche media industry / Bart Beaty
Chapter 7: "All that Shakespeare stuff": comic books and the public pedagogy of adaptation / Shari Sabeti
Chapter 8: Learning to speak "without shame": a feminist response to gendered violence in Priya's Shakti / Valerie Wieskamp
Chapter 9: The tribes of Comic-Con: continuity and change in the twenty-first-century fan culture / Rob Salkowitz
Chapter 10: Comics and comic cons: finding the sense of community / T. Keith Edmunds
Chapter 11: Follow the readers: leadership elections in the Silver-and-Bronze-Age legion of super-heroes / Christopher J. Galdieri
Chapter 12: Not just superhero stories: comic book fandom as a resource in the cultural toolkit of life / Adriana Estrada Wilson
Chapter 13: Pirates and publishers: comics scanning and the audience function / Kalervo A. Sinervo
Chapter 14: Objectifying the objectifiers: academics in the comics world
an interview with Charles Hatfield and Franny Howes
Contributors
Index.