The art of comics : a philosophical approach

Author(s)

• Meskin, Aaron
• Cook, Roy T.

Bibliographic Information

The art of comics : a philosophical approach

edited by Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook

（New directions in aesthetics, 12）

Wiley Blackwell, 2014

• : pbk

Note

First published in hardback, 2012

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

THE ART OF COMICS The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics. The volume, which includes a preface by the renowned comics author Warren Ellis, contains ten cutting-edge essays on a range of philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. These include the definition of comics, the nature of comics genres, the relationship between comics and other arts such as film and literature, the way words and pictures combine in comics, comics authorship, the "language" of comics, and the metaphysics of comics. The book also contains an in-depth introduction by the co-editors which provides an overview of both the book and its subject, as well as a brief history of comics and an overview of extant work on the philosophy of comics. In an area of growing philosophical interest, this volume constitutes a great leap forward in the development of this fast expanding field, and makes a major contribution to the philosophy of art.

Table of Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments vii List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Foreword xii Warren Ellis The Art and Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction xiv Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook Part One: The Nature and Kinds of Comics 1 1 Redefining Comics 3 John Holbo 2 The Ontology of Comics 31 Aaron Meskin 3 Comics and Collective Authorship 47 Christy Mag Uidhir 4 Comics and Genre 68 Catharine Abell Part Two: Comics and Representation 85 5 Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics 87 Thomas E. Wartenberg 6 What's So Funny? Comic Content in Depiction 105 Patrick Maynard 7 The Language of Comics 125 Darren Hudson Hick Part Three: Comics and the Other Arts 145 8 Making Comics into Film 147 Henry John Pratt 9 Why Comics Are Not Films: Metacomics and Medium?]Specific Conventions 165 Roy T. Cook 10 Proust's In Search of Lost Time : The Comics Version 188 David Carrier Index 203

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Details

• NCID: BB15955460
• ISBN:
  • 9781118799468
• LCCN: 2011036428
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chichester
• Pages/Volumes: xlii, 213 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN6710
  • DC23 : 741.5/9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Philosophy in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA61122355