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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461205403321

Titolo

On the edge of the panel : essays on comics criticism / / edited by Julio Cañero and Esther Claudio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8199-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

741.509

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Comic books, strips, etc

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

To create a comic is not to illustrate words, but to create narrative diagrams and transform strokes into imaging words. The infinite array of possibilities that the merging of text and pictures provides is a garden of forking paths that critics have just started to explore. This is an art that operates as the crossroads of various disciplines, but whose specifications require a thorough understanding of its unique mechanisms. The explosion of experimental works and the incorporation of previously marginal (or nonexistent)  genres and themes in comics have enriched an already fruitful art in w