Hellboys World (GN)

Comics and Monsters on the Margins

Scott Bukatman

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DARK HORSE COMICS
07 April 2016

Graphic novels: superheroes; Fiction-related items; Graphic novels: history & criticism; Fairy Tale; Mythological Creatures, People & Places; Detective Fantasy; Occult; Undead; Demons Horror; Fantasy Graphic Novel; Demons Fantasy; Magic; Graphic Novel; Horror Graphic Novel

Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman’s dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened “adventure of reading” in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds for the reader’s imagination to inhabit. Drawing upon other media—including children’s books, sculpture, pulp fiction, cinema, graphic design, painting, and illuminated manuscripts—Bukatman reveals the mechanics of creating a world on the page. He also demonstrates the pleasurable and multiple complexities of the reader’s experience, invoking the riotous colors of comics that elude rationality and control and delving into shared fictional universes and occult detection, the horror genre and the evocation of the sublime, and the place of abstraction in Mignola’s art. Monsters populate the world of Hellboy comics, but Bukatman argues that comics are themselves little monsters, unruly sites of sensory and cognitive pleasures that exist, happily, on the margins. The book is not only a treat for Hellboy fans, but it will entice anyone interested in the medium of comics and the art of reading.

By: Scott Bukatman
Imprint: DARK HORSE COMICS
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520288041
ISBN 10: 0520288041
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 07 April 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott Bukatman is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is author of Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century; Blade Runner, BFI Modern Classics; Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction; and The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit.

Reviews for Hellboys World (GN): Comics and Monsters on the Margins

"""Hellboy's World is really a manifesto for a different kind of comics studies."" Confessions of an Aca-Fan ""Hellboy's World is written with such joyfulness and panache that I find it a pleasure to page through, again and again. Beautifully designed, bountifully illustrated - all scholarly tomes on comic art should look this good."" -- Charles Hatfield LA Review of Books Quite simply, a masterpiece of loving attention and lively interaction with the works under study. More than that: a constellation of ideas that bear on comics in general, art and culture at large, and the very act (or as Bukatman says, the adventure) of reading itself. , -- Charles Hatfield The Comics Journal ""All will come away from this New York City volume with newfound love for the beguiling, legendary, volatile town...an engaging and enlightening read for anyone who loves New York City, creative scholarship, and top-notch graphic design."" -- Melissa Wuske Foreword Reviews"