Multimodal Comics: The Evolution of Comics Studies
About this ebook
By focusing on key critical concepts within multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analogue, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), it expands and develops existing comics theory and also addresses multiple other media and disciplines.
Over the last decade Studies in Comics has been at the forefront of international research in comics. This volume showcases some of the best research to appear in the journal. In so doing it demonstrates the evolution of Comics Studies over the last decade and shows how this research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a continuously evolving artistic and production environment. The theme of multimodality is particularly apt since media and technologies have changed significantly during this period. The collection will thus give a view of the ways in which comics scholars have engaged with multimodality during a time when “modes” were continually changing.
About the author
Madeline Gangnes is an assistant professor of English at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, USA. She is a co-editor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials. Her work appears in Studies in Comics, the
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the Victorian Periodicals Review, and Key Terms in Comics Studies, among other publications.
Professor Christopher Murray is professor of Comics Studies and English Literature in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He leads the Masters in Comics and Graphic Novels and is director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies and Dundee Comics Creative Space. He is a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics.
Julia Round’s books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is associate professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and one of the founders and co-editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.
