Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal environments and human-animal relationships to shed new light on comics and graphic novels in which animal agents play a significant role. At the same time, the volume's international team of contributors show how the distinctive structures and affordances of graphic narratives foreground key questions about trans-species entanglements in a more-than-human world. The writers/artists covered in the book include: Nick Abadzis, Adolpho Avril, Jeffrey Brown, Sue Coe, Matt Dembicki, Olivier Deprez, J. J. Grandville, George Herriman, Adam Hines, William Hogarth, Grant Morrison, Osamu Tezuka, Frank Quitely, Yu Sasuga, Charles M. Schultz, Art Spiegelman, Fiona Staples, Ken'ichi Tachibana, Brian K. Vaughan, and others.
Volume editor:
David Herman (Researcher Durham University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 556g
ISBN: 9781350015319
ISBN 10: 1350015318
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 14 December 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: More-than-Human Worlds in Graphic Storytelling David Herman Part I. Animal Agency in the History and Theory of Comics 1. Lions and Tigers and Fears: A Natural History of the Sequential Animal Daniel F. Yezbick, St Louis Community College, USA 2. The Animalized Character and Style Glenn Willmott, Queen's University, Canada Part II. Species of Difference: Functions of Animal Alterity in Graphic Narratives 3. The Politics and Poetics of Alterity in Adam Hines's Duncan the Wonder Dog Alex Link, Alberta College of Art & Design, Canada 4. The Saga of the Animal as Visual Metaphor for Mixed-Race Identity in Comics Michael A. Chaney, Dartmouth College, USA 5. Curly Tails and Flying Dogs: Structures of Affect in Nick Abadzi's Laika Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA 6. Invasive Species: Manga's Insect-Human Worlds Mary A. Knighton, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Part III. Critical Frameworks for Multispecies Comics 7. Resituating the Animal Comic: Environmentalist Aesthetics in Matt Dembicki's Xoc: The Journey of a Great White Laura Pearson, University of Leeds, UK 8. Interspecies Relationships in Graphic Micronarratives: From Olivier Deprez to Avril-Deprez Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, Belgium 9. Animal Minds in Nonfiction Comics David Herman Part IV. Graphic Animality in the Classroom and Beyond 10. Can We Be Part of the Pride? Reading Animals through Comics in the Undergraduate Classroom Andrew Smyth and Charles E. Baraw, Southern Connecticut State University, USA 11. This is Home Bridget Brewer and Thalia Field, Brown University, USA Index
David Herman has taught at several institutions in the US and, most recently, at Durham University, UK. Growing out of his recent studies on animal narratives across media, his monograph Narratology beyond the Human will be published in 2018.
Reviews for Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives
With its international and interdisciplinary sweep, this ground-breaking volume examines the ways that comics activate animals as icons and symbols in ways that no other art form possibly can. * Bart Beaty, Professor of English, University of Calgary, Canada * If animals cannot speak, they have found in the authors of this fascinating volume the best advocates and interpreters. Animal comics are not a genre but a continent, of which the cartography is delivered here for the first time, in a truly cross-disciplinary perspective. * Thierry Groensteen, Cite internationale de la bande dessinee et de l'image, Angouleme, France *
