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. Front Matter Contents Introduction 1. Adaptation 2. Alternative 3. Archie 4. Archive 5. Border 6. Caricature 7. Cartoon 8. Censorship 9. Circulation 10. Cognition 11. Comic Book 12. Comic Strip 13. Comix 14. Cosplay 15. Creator 16. Disability 17. Diversity 18. Documentary 19. EC Comics 20. Fandom 21. Fantasy 22. Feminism 23. Form 24. Funnies 25. Gender 26. Genre 27. Graphic Novel 28. Gutter 29. Industry 30. Ink 31. Latinx 32. Love and Rockets 33. Lowbrow 34. Manga 35. Memoir 36. Nostalgia 37. Panel 38. Pornography 39. Print 40. Queer 41. Race 42. Reader 43. Sequence 44. Seriality 45. Southern 46. Speculation 47. Superhero 48. Superman 49. Trans-/* 50. Universe 51. Watchmen 52. Webcomics 53. Wonder Woman 54. X-Men 55. Zine Appendix References About the Contributors