By Wibke Weber and Hans-Martin Rall Abstract Comics journalism and animated documentary are two genres that have experienced exponential growth in the last 20 years—in practice…
By Chiao-I Tseng and Tilmann Altenberg Abstract In this article, we argue that non-fictional graphic war narratives are a powerful tool for influencing people’s interest in…
By Ofer Ashkenazi and Jakob Dittmar This paper considers potential ways comics narratives with a documentary claim can participate in the academic discussion of history.…
By Jörn Ahrens 1. Introduction This article will discuss the ability of comics to function as modes of documentation based on the analysis of two pages…
By Kenneth Oravetz Recent comics scholarship has emphasized the importance of a wide and flexible notion of the comics canon and of the definition of…
By Tiffany Hong The 2016 limited series The Vision by Tom King, pencilled by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, imposes upon its readers the impossible, absurd task…
By Claudia Maria Acosta The zines that most librarians and punks-turned-scholars grew up reading, printed matter already limited in quantity and circulation scope, are treated like…
By Allison Bannister The first time I wrapped the box in a scarf, the action was intended to protect it from wind and rain—to hold all…
By Carolina Martins Virtual space, a simple pretext for a nomenclature. But you don’t even need to close your eyes for the space evoked by these…
By Elaine Sponholtz The 2018 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “ImageTech: Comics and Materiality,” closed with a panel on the role…