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In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comics art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and brings together myriad traditions. Comics Studies: A Guidebook offers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. It opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts. An invaluable one-stop resource for veteran and new comics scholars alike, this guidebook represents the state of the art in contemporary comics scholarship.
Designed for undergraduate and graduate students as well as teachers, researchers, and fans, the Guidebook focuses on core topics, as textbooks do, yet is essayistic and personal in style, reflecting the input of a score of scholars. If you're about to take, or teach, a course on comics, check out this book and see what you think!
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With Comics Studies: A Guidebook, Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (both top of their game) bring together a dream team of top researchers to produce a foundational collection that is going to be a cornerstone for all future research in this field. Each essay is not only encyclopedic in its synthesis of existing research but expands our knowledge of comics history and our conceptual understanding of how comics operates as an industry, as a set of social practices, as a confluence of genres, as a readership, and as an array of formal practices. — HENRY JENKINS, author of Comics and Stuff
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Comics Studies: A Guidebook
Edited by Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty
Rutgers University Press, August 2020
336 pages, 28 color images, 6.125 x 9.25 inches
Paperback, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0813591414
Cloth, US$74.95, ISBN 978-0813591421
PDF, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0813591452
EPUB, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0813591438
Disciplines: Comics Studies, Popular Culture, Film and Media Studies, Communications, American Studies, Literary Studies, Art History
Book cover and logo by Brian Biggs (MrBiggs.com)
Book design by Bethany Luckenbach
Rutgers University Press, August 2020
336 pages, 28 color images, 6.125 x 9.25 inches
Paperback, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0813591414
Cloth, US$74.95, ISBN 978-0813591421
PDF, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0813591452
EPUB, US$34.95, ISBN 978-0813591438
Disciplines: Comics Studies, Popular Culture, Film and Media Studies, Communications, American Studies, Literary Studies, Art History
Book cover and logo by Brian Biggs (MrBiggs.com)
Book design by Bethany Luckenbach
We dedicate this book to the memory of Don Ault and Tom Spurgeon, mentors and great souls — and
to the comics scholars of the future.
to the comics scholars of the future.
This collection copyright © 2020 by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Individual chapters copyright © 2020 in the names of their authors.
This website maintained by Charles Hatfield.
Individual chapters copyright © 2020 in the names of their authors.
This website maintained by Charles Hatfield.
