... novels have in recent years assumed their rightful place as literary texts to be considered by critics, analyzed by scholars, and mined by filmmakers.Yet, even as the m ultiplexes feature an increasing num ber of Hollywood block­ busters based on classic comic book superheroes, scholars and critics still...

... IS THE ISSUE, EITHER- IT 'S CERTAINLY NCT JUST AN ISSUE F¿>R COMICS WE CAN BARELY JUSTIFY WHAT WE D TO EACH ¿5THER WHY SHOULDN'T THE DEAN CUT US: Y¿>U'EE &0\ & TO HAVE JO EXPLAIN WHAT THAT HAS TO WITH CCMICS EIÔHT, I ' L L JUST JOT IT ALL DCWN BETWEEN CLASSES HEY, JUSTIN DO YOU HAVE A BATMAN #614? ...

...Martha Rust Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 It s a M a g i c a l W o r l d : T h e P a g e in C o m ic s a n d M edieval Ma n u s c r ip t s Martha Rust he best comics," writes Anne Elizabeth Moore, "create an all-encompassing environment."1 Geoffrey Chaucer...

...Karin Kukkonen Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 B eyo n d La n g u a g e : M e t a p h o r a n d M e t o n y m y in C om ics S to ry tellin g K a r in K u k k o n e n Considering comics as language is a com m on approach in comics studies. Comics as we know them...

... crossing has become a defining characteristic of the age. JulieThom pson Klein, Crossing Boundaries1 A s this issue of ELN attests, there now exists a burgeoning if uncohesive field of comics studies: a field as yet unresolved in its identity but healthily open to diverse approaches. Said field, arguably...

... and import. Such an agon is par­ ticularly clear in the grow ing body of scholarship on cartoons, comics, and graphic novels. For the critical response to this material has been to isolate it, to delim it its parameters through a series o f definitions, a list of noteworthy texts, and a lexicon of terms...

...Sean Carney Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 T he Ear of the Ey e , o r , Do D raw ings Make S o u n d s ? S ean Car n ey You go to a comic convention now and they're trade fairs. They're trade fairs where the industry can actually get their target audience to pay...

... issues o f cultural capital, knowledge production, and textual form through the m ost low -brow comics genre: the serialized superhero comic book. In the follow ing, I turn to a storyline published in the Batman m onthly from December 2002 to November 2003, titled Hush, and w ritten by Jeph Loeb...

...Philip Sandifer Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 A mazing Fa n ta sies: T r a u m a , AFFECT, AND SUPERHEROES P h il ip S a n d if e r Comics scholarship, as a whole, has focused prim arily on graphic novels selfcontained narratives with distinct beginnings...

...Christopher Pizzino Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 A rt That Goes BOOM: Genre a n d A e s t h e t i c s in F r a n k M i l l e r s S in City C h r is t o p h e r P izzin o T he growing prominence of comics in the United States presents a difficult ques­ tion...

... novellisation (Les Impressions Nouvelles 2008). He has published also some ten books o f poetry, among which is a collection of poems on comics: Cent ans de bande dessinée (Les Impressions Nouvelles 2007). Sean Carney is an associate professor in the Department of English at McGill University, Montreal. He...

... many hands to make a comic book, and many hands to make a book about comic books. Often these hands are credited on the masthead; often they are not.· I w ould like to give thanks to the people w ho made this book. First, I thank ELN's m an­ aging editor, Karen Jacobs, and its editorial board.These...

...; 2another group believes he must have been jealous before the action of the play begins; still others ignore the exact mo­ m ent in which jealousy emerges, but argue that his jealousy is well founded.3With all of these criticisms, however, the assump­ tion is the same: Leontes is a tragi-comic hero whose...

... illustrate, for example, hateful, sly, or intelligent characters except by relying on cultural images conveying notions of "evil," "cleverness," and "sm arts" (a point to which I w ill return later)? Scott McCloud addresses the sophisticated reading strategies required in order to understand comics...

... the form of an adaptation, as one may adapt a book on screen (think o f David Mazzuchelli's version of City o f Glass Various m ajor mainstream publishers in France, the w orld leader in serious comics and graphic novel production, have now specialized series in this field.2A ll these series are strongly...

...Johanna Drucker Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 W hat is G r a p h ic a b o u t G raphic N o v e l s? Jo hanna D rucker Is there a difference between a graphic novel and some of the apparently close cognates to the form such as illustrated books, comics, 'zines...

... is an ice thief, we are told that Caddy, too, steals ice, unbeknownst to Peira. 20 Peira’s understandings of water are shown to be inadequate, eroding her relatively prestigious social position as a water owner, while Caddy’s survival tactics are cast as underhanded. There is a note of comic subterfuge...

... of a very innovative strand o f novelistic expres­ sion. Of all modern form s o f storytelling, it is certainly the medium that makes m ost room for handwriting.The contemporary graphic novel has abandoned the transparent, neutral, often mechanic lettering styles of mainstream comics, embracing a type...

... of the peasantry to the stock comedic woes of hen-pecked hus­ bands, the parody redefines those hardships within the realm ofjoke and innuendo. The comic portrayal of the aristocratic landowners also un­ derm ines the authority of the aristocracy. If husbands are farm­ ers and children are sheep...

... of memory without historical specificity. Hillary Chute has noted that “through its spatial syntax, comics offers opportunities to place pressure on traditional notions of chronology, linearity, and causality—as well as on the idea that ‘history’ can ever be a closed discourse, or a simply progressive one...