Comics and the Body

Comics and the Body
Author: Eszter Szp
Publisher: Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780814257722

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Examines the role of the body in drawing and reading comics within a single framework.

Comics and the Body

Comics and the Body
Author: Eszter Szép
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9780814280805

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Looking at works by Lynda Barry, Ken Dahl, Katie Green, Miriam Katin, and Joe Sacco, presents a new way to see how our bodies read and show up in comics. Emphasizes the discursive, performative, and vulnerable nature of the body

Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist

Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2008-08-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0393346838

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The final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling. Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner’s own techniques and theories of movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components of graphic storytelling. From his earliest comics, including the celebrated Spirit, to his pioneering graphic novels, Eisner understood that the proper use of anatomy is crucial to effective storytelling. His control over the mechanical and intuitive skills necessary for its application set him apart among comics artists, and his principles of body grammar have proven invaluable to legions of students in overcoming what is perhaps the most challenging aspect of creating comics. Buttressed by dozens of illustrations, which display Eisner’s mastery of expression, both subtle and overt, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative will benefit comics fans, students, and teachers and is destined to become the essential primer on the craft.

Bodies (New Edition)

Bodies (New Edition)
Author: Si Spencer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781779526977

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An era-jumping murder mystery set in London, soon to be a Netflix series! LONDON, 1890. As Jack the Ripper stalks the streets, Inspector Edmond Hillinghead-the city's most diligent detective-applies his skills to an even harder case. The victim is an unidentified male. The killer may have powerful allies. And Edmond's darkest secret may be exposed if he gets too close to the truth.... LONDON, 1940. As the Blitz rains bombs down on the city, Inspector Charles Whiteman reigns over its streets. He escaped the Nazis in Poland only to run the very rackets he's supposed to shut down. But when he discovers a mysterious murder victim, his double life may be destroyed... LONDON, 2014. As racist rioters wreak havoc in the name of their prejudiced patriotism, Detective Sergeant Shahara Hasan leads the fight against them. As a Muslim cop, she's English to the core. But the corpse she's uncovered may reveal something rotten deep below the surface... LONDON, 2050. As the mind-scrambling pulsewave plagues the last survivors of a terrifying techno-apocalypse, the amnesiac young woman known only as Maplewood can barely understand the body she's discovered. But this ritual killing is identical to those from decades past-and the link between them all is stronger, and stranger, than anyone could dream... In BODIES, writer Si Spencer teams up with Meghan Hetrick, Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay and Phil Winslade-four incredible artists, one for each era-to slice open the modern murder mystery and uncover the strange secret heart within! Collects issues #1-8.

The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics

The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics
Author: Scott Jeffery
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137549505

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This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concern surrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientific movement of Transhumanism arguing that it is time humans took active control of their evolution. Utilising Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the rhizome as a non-hierarchical system of knowledge to conceptualize the superhero narrative in terms of its political, social and aesthetic relations to the history of human technological enhancement, this book draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in which the posthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while simultaneously highlighting its shared historical development with Post/Humanist critical theory and the material techno-scientific practices of Transhumanism.

Uncanny Bodies

Uncanny Bodies
Author: Scott T. Smith
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0271086300

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Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world. Working from the premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on lesser-known characters—such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the Silver Scorpion—as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy. Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and scholarship in popular culture. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons, Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later, Lauren O’Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.

Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body #1

Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body #1
Author: Christopher Cantwell
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2021-11-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 164668592X

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Where is Lee Harvey Oswald’s body? The Kennedy assassination is a rat’s nest of conspiracy theories: mafia involvement, the second gunman, government cover-up... but the most important chapter of this sordid tale may just be the theory that the body buried at Oswald’s Rose Hill gravesite is not actually Lee Harvey himself. Meet the ragtag group of “useful idiots” who are unwittingly brought together to clean up the crime of the century – a wannabe cowboy from Wisconsin, a Buddy Holly-idolizing (former) car thief, a world-weary Civil Rights activist ready for revolution, and a failed G-Man who still acts the part – and specifically, regarding the matter of Oswald’s body.

I Breathed a Body

I Breathed a Body
Author: Zac Thompson
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949028706

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A science fiction horror series about social media, big tech, and influencer culture. It's The Social Network meets Hellraiser. When the world's biggest influencer posts something irredeemably horrific online, the world changes in an instant. Now it's up to his social media manager, Anne Stewart, to fan the flames of outrage and create a sensationalist campaign that rewrites the rules of "banned content." Thus begins a carnival of lust, revulsion, desire, and disgust - all for viral videos. Written by Zac Thompson (LONELY RECEIVER, UNDONE BY BLOOD, X-Men) and illustrated by Andy MacDonald (Multiple Man, Rogue Planet), I BREATHED A BODY is a horror series about the voyeurism of violence and the Big Tech companies who engineer patterns of fear in society.

Body Music

Body Music
Author: Julie Maroh
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1551526948

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Julie Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it was a New York Times bestseller and the controversial film adaptation by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Maroh's latest book, Body Music, marks her return to the kind of soft, warm palette and impressionistic sensibility that made her debut book so sensational. Set in the languid, European-like neighborhoods of Montreal, Body Music is a beautiful and moving meditation on love and desire as expressed in their many different forms?between women, men, and gender non-conformists alike, all varying in age and race. In twenty separate vignettes, Maroh explores the drama inherent in relationships at different stages: the electricity of initial attraction, the elation of falling in love, the trauma of breaking up, the sweet comfort of a long-standing romance. Anyone who's ever been in a relationship will see themselves in these intimate stories tinged with raw emotion. Body Music is an exhilarating and passionate graphic novel about what it means to fall in love, and what it means to be alive. Julie Maroh studied comic art at the Institute Saint-Luc in Brussels and lithography and engraving at the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels. She started writing her bestselling book Blue Is the Warmest Color at the age of nineteen.

Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist

Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823047734

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Presents a guide to stylized figure anatomy for artists wishing to emulate one of today's popular streamlined comic book styles, with step-by-step demonstrations and studies of major muscle groups, heads, hands, and feet.