Despite the constitutive vagueness inherent in the fundamental question of how comics can
be conceptualised as a medium, the fact remains that they are generally treated 'as …

Drawing on accounts that describe media as ensembles of heterogeneous elements, this
article proposes to understand the mediality of comics as an actor-network: as outlined by …

When approaching a comic, our first impulse may be to read for the content of the story as a
story (what narrative theory calls the récit) and pass over its visual form. Yet to do so is to …

Comics are persistently labelled a kind of literature, but so-called literary treatments of the
form are often questionable, focusing on story, content and themes. The fact that comics tell …

This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It
outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and …

Perhaps the most befuddling and widely debated point in comics scholarship lies at its very
core, namely, the definition of “comics” itself. Most arguments on this issue focus on the roles …

The medium of comics has a nearly limitless communicative potential, at least theoretically.
Most, but by no means all, definitions of comics agree on this. Specifically, for this forum text …

Research on the understanding of 'how comics work'has grown tremendously over the past
twenty years, with more articles and books emerging each year. Much of this research has …

This article offers a reexamination of the term “graphic novel,” as a term that has been
instrumentalized to both ingratiate certain comics into the literary canon and perpetuate the …

Silent comics are a thought-provoking formal challenge in relation to the comics form as a
whole. Many definitions of comics foreground the combination of text and image as both …