Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature

Joyce Goggin teaches literature, film and new media at the University of Amsterdam, where she is currently the acting chair of the English literature. Dan Hassler-Forest is an assistant professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on superhero movies, comics, transmedia storytelling, adaptation studies, critical theory and zombies.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionJoyce Goggin and Dan Hassler-Forest      Part One. Origin Stories: History and Development of the Genre1. Of Gutters and Guttersnipes: Hogarth’s LegacyJoyce Goggin      2. Ridiculous Rebellion: George L. Carlson and the Recovery of Jingle Jangle ComicsDaniel F. Yezbick      3. Suspended in Mid-Month: Serialized Storytelling in ComicsDaniel Wüllner      Part Two. What We Talk About When We Talk About Comics: Theory and Terminology4 Balloonics: The Visuals of Balloons in ComicsCharles Forceville, Tony Veale, and Kurt Feyaerts      5. Remediation and the Sense of Time in Graphic NarrativesKai Mikkonen      6. Brick by Brick: Chris Ware’s Architecture of the PageAngela Szczepaniak      Part Three. Out of the Gutter: Comics and Adaptations7. It Was the Best of Two Worlds, It Was the Worst of Two Worlds: The Adaptation of Novels in Comics and Graphic NovelsDirk Vanderbeke      8. The 300 Controversy: A Case Study in the Politics of AdaptationDan Hassler-Forest      Part Four. Men in Tights: The Superhero Paradigm9. The Last Action Hero’s Swan Song: Graphic Novelty or Never-Ending Story?Andreas Rauscher      10. Extraordinary People: The Superhero Genre and Celebrity Culture in The League of Extraordinary GentlemenJonathan E. Goldman      11. Warren Ellis’s Planetary: The Archaeology of SuperheroesKarin Kukkonen      Part Five. Drawing History: Nonfiction in Comics12. Reconsidering Comics Journalism: Information and Experience in Joe Sacco’s PalestineBenjamin Woo      13. Comics, Trauma and Cultural Memory(ies) of 9/11Christophe Dony and Caroline van Linthout      14. “Be vewy, vewy quiet. We’re hunting wippers”: A Barthesian Analysis of the Construction of Fact and Fiction in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From HellJulia Round      15. Graphic Black Nationalism: Visualizing Political Narratives in the Graphic NovelJames Braxton Peterson      About the Contributors      Works Cited      Index