Comics as a Research Practice

Comics as a Research Practice
Author: Giada Peterle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000396088

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This book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics. It presents a transdisciplinary approach that uses a set of qualitative visual methods and extends from within the geohumanities across literary spatial studies, comics, urban studies, mobility studies, and beyond. Written by a geographer-cartoonist, the book focuses on ‘narrative geographies’ and embraces a geocritical and relational approach to examine comic book geographies in pursuit of a growing interest in creative, art-based experimental methods in the geohumanities. It explores comics-based research through interconnections between art and geography and through theoretical and methodological contributions from scholars working in the fields of the social sciences, humanities, literary geographies, mobilities, comics, literary studies, and urban studies, as well as from visual artists, comics authors, and art practitioners. Comics are valuable objects of geographical interest because of their spatial grammar. They are also a language particularly suited to geographical analysis, and the ‘geoGraphic novel’ offers a practice of research that has the power to assemble and disassemble new spatial meanings. The book thus explores how the ‘geoGraphic novel’ as a verbo-visual genre allows the study of geographical issues, composes geocentred stories, engages wider and non-specialist audiences, promotes geo-artistic collaboration, and works as a narrative intervention in urban contexts. Through a practice-based approach and the internal perspective of a geographer-cartoonist, the book provides examples of how geoGraphic fieldwork is conducted and offers analysis of the processes of ideation, composition, and dissemination of geoGraphic narratives.

Cartooning

Cartooning
Author: Ivan Brunetti
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2011-03-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300172591

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Provides lessons on the art of cartooning along with information on terminology, tools, techniques, and theory.

Comic Book Geographies

Comic Book Geographies
Author: Jason Dittmer
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783515102698

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Comic Book Geographies is a volume that brings together scholars from the discipline of geography and the field of comics studies to consider the multiple ways in which space is both constitutive of, and produced through, comic books. Senior scholars contribute their thoughts alongside a range of fresh talent from both fields, providing for a potent mix of perspectives. Together, these chapters reframe debates about comic books by highlighting their unique spatialities and the way that those spatialities are shot through by a range of relationships to time. Examples are drawn from a wide range of geographical contexts, from post-9/11 American superhero comics to the Franco-Belgian tradition and from comics intended for mass consumption to the spoken-word performances of Alan Moore. As a truly interdisciplinary engagement, with scholars coming from geography, literature, history, and beyond, Comic Book Geographies brings together perspectives on comic books that have too long been working in isolation.

Seeing Comics through Art History

Seeing Comics through Art History
Author: Maggie Gray
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2022-06-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 3030935078

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This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the questioning of some of its deep-rooted categories and procedures, it also appraises what comics and Comics Studies afford and ask of Art History. This book draws together the work of international scholars applying art-historical methodologies to the study of a range of comic strips, books, cartoons, graphic novels and manga, who, as well as being researchers, are also educators, artists, designers, curators, producers, librarians, editors, and writers, with some undertaking practice-based research. Many are trained art historians, but others come from, have migrated into, or straddle other disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and a range of subjects within Art & Design practice.

Empirical Comics Research

Empirical Comics Research
Author: Alexander Dunst
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-07-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351733885

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This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research. Drawing on computer and cognitive science, psychology and art history, linguistics and literary studies, each chapter presents innovative methods and establishes the practical and theoretical motivations for the quantitative study of comics, manga, and graphic novels. Individual chapters focus on corpus studies, the potential of crowdsourcing for comics research, annotation and narrative analysis, cognitive processing and reception studies. This volume opens up new perspectives for the study of visual narrative, making it a key reference for anyone interested in the scientific study of art and literature as well as the digital humanities.

Comics and Critical Librarianship

Comics and Critical Librarianship
Author: Olivia Piepmeier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2019
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781634000802

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"Highlights the use and focus of comics by librarians and library workers who practice critical librarianship"--

Comics Studies

Comics Studies
Author: Charles Hatfield
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0813591414

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A concise introduction to one of today's fastest-growing, most exciting fields, Comics Studies: A Guidebook outlines core research questions and introduces comics' history, form, genres, audiences, and industries. Authored by a diverse roster of leading scholars, this Guidebook offers a perfect entryway to the world of comics scholarship.

Critical Librarianship

Critical Librarianship
Author: Samantha Schmehl Hines
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1839094842

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This book offers a timely mix of thought-provoking chapters bringing together national and global studies on critical librarianship, and conveying the kind of research which current library managers and researchers need, mixing theory with a good dose of pragmatism.

The Comic Book as Research Tool

The Comic Book as Research Tool
Author: Stephen R. O'Sullivan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2023-11-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110781131

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This book contributes to a growing body of work celebrating the visual methods and tools that aid knowledge transfer and welcome new audiences to social science research. Visual research methodological milestones highlight a trajectory towards the adoption of more creative and artistic media. As such, the book is dedicated to exploring the creative potential of the comic book medium, and how it can assist the production and communication of scientific knowledge. The cultural blueprint of the comic book is examined, and the unique structure and grammar of the form deconstructed and adapted for research support. Along with two illustrated research comics, Toxic Play and 10 Business Days, the book offers readers numerous comic-based illustration activities and creative visual exercises to support data generation, foster conversational knowledge exchanges, facilitate inference, analysis, and interpretation, while nurturing the necessary skills to illustrate and create research comics. The book engages a diverse audience and is an illuminating read for visual novices, experts, and all in-betweeners.

The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0190917962

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Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector of publishing. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies looks at the field systematically, examining the history and evolution of the genre from a global perspective. This includes a discussion of how comic books are built out of shared aesthetic systems such as literature, painting, drawing, photography, and film. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, it explores how the term "global comics" has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that will drive the field in the years to come. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.