Title

Autobiographical Comics

Authors

Michael A. Johnson, Central Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Department or Administrative Unit

World Languages

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field.

Essays examine:

the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga, comix, and the comics code;

issues such as authorship, ethics, adaptation, and translating comics;

connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy

Comments

This book chapter was originally published in The Routledge Companion to Comics. The chapter from the publisher can be found here.

Due to copyright restrictions, this article is not available for free download from ScholarWorks @ CWU.

Recommended Citation

Johnson, Michael A. "Autobiographical Comics." The Routledge Companion to Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, & Aaron Meskin, Routledge, 2017, pp. 192-200.

Rights

© 2017 Taylor & Francis