Keywords for Comics Studies

**Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies** Across more than fifty original essays, __Keywords for Comics Studies__ provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. __Keywords for Comics Studies__ presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like __Ink__, __Creator__, __Border__, and __Panel__; conceptual terms such as __Trans\*__, __Disability__, __Universe__, and __Fantasy__; genre terms like __Zine__, __Pornography__, __Superhero__, and __Manga__; and canonical terms like __X-Men__, __Archie__, __Watchmen__, and __Love and Rockets__. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. __Keywords for Comics Studies__ revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field’s most compelling and imaginative ideas. "Across more than fifty essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, and identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first century. In an original twist on the NYU Keywords mission, the terms in this volume combine attention to the unique aesthetic practices of a distinct medium, comics, with some of the most fundamental concepts of the humanities broadly. Readers will see how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields-including media and film studies, queer and feminist theory, and critical race and transgender studies among others-take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics and more. To do so, Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of original and inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art, but traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative or aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms like trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms, like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen and Love and Rockets. Written as much for students and lay readers as professors and experts in the field, Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas"-- Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas. Introduction: Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley 1. Adaptation: Matt Yockey 2. Alternative: Charles Hatfield 3. Archie: Bart Beaty 4. Archive: Margaret Galvan 5. Border: Cathy Schlund-Vials 6. Caricature: Rebecca Wanzo 7. Cartoon: Michael Mark Cohen 8. Censorship: Amy Kiste Nyberg 9. Circulation: Benjamin Woo 10. Cognition: Michael Chaney and Sara Biggs Chaney 11. Comic Book: Jared Gardner 12. Comic Strip: Jessica Quick Stark 13. Comix: Nicholas Sammond 14. Cosplay: Ellen Kirkpatrick 15. Creator: Susan Kirtley 16. Disability: José Alaniz 17. Diversity: Frederick Luis Aldama 18. Documentary: Christopher Spaide 19. EC Comics: Nicholas Yanes 20. Fandom: Aaron Kashtan 21. Fantasy: Darieck Scott 22. Feminism: Yetta Howard 23. Form: Scott Bukatman 24. Funnies: Joshua Abraham Kopin 25. Gender: Ian Blechschmidt 26. Genre: Shelley Streeby 27. Graphic Novel: Tahneer Oksman 28. Gutter: Christopher Pizzino 29. Industry: Gregory Steirer 30. Ink: Stacey Robinson 31. Latinx: Isabel Millán None 32. Love and Rockets: Enrique García 33. Lowbrow: Sean Guynes 34. Manga: Adam L. Kern 35. Memoir: Joo Ok Kim 36. Nostalgia: Blair Davis 37. Panel: Matt Silady 38. Pornography: Justin Hall 39. Print: Carol L. Tilley 40. Queer: Ramzi Fawaz, with Darieck Scott 41. Race: Jonathan W. Gray 42. Reader: Frank Bramlett 43. Sequence: Barbara Postema 44. Seriality: Osvaldo Oyola 45. Southern: Brannon Costello 46. Speculation: andré carrington 47. Superhero: Benjamin Saunders 48. Superman: Ian Gordon 49. Trans-/*: Cáel M. Keegan None 50. Universe: Anthony Michael D'Agostino 51. Watchmen: Andrew Hoberek 52. Webcomics: Leah Misemer 53. Wonder Woman: Phil Jimenez 54. X-Men: Alexandro Segade 55. Zine: Mimi Thi Nguyen.