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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 July 2026
- ISBN 9781138088191
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 198x129 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Offering an accessible introduction to the world of comics, this book provides a critical overview of how the form and content of comic books from around the globe have evolved over time.
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Long description:
Offering an accessible introduction to the world of comics, this book provides a critical overview of how the form and content of comic books from around the globe have evolved over time.
From Tokyo's manga cafés to Buenos Aires's kioscos, from Parisian ateliers to Lagos's digital studios, comics have become a truly planetary art form. Global Comics: The Basics is the first comprehensive guide to this vibrant world republic of sequential art, tracing how local traditions—Japanese manga, Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, Latin American historietas, African comics, and more—developed their distinctive visual grammars while increasingly cross-pollinating across borders. Frederick Luis Aldama illuminates how creators from Osamu Tezuka to Marjane Satrapi, from the Hernandez Brothers to Deena Mohamed, have wielded the unique power of words-and-pictures storytelling to witness history, challenge power, and reimagine identity. This book offers an important guide to the history of comics globally, situating comic book production, dissemination, and consumption within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts.
Essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about the history and cultural significance of comics on a global level and why they matter more than ever in our interconnected age.
Forget everything you thought you knew about comics being an American (or Japanese, or Franco-Belgian) thing—Aldama's Global Comics blows up parochial paradigms, delivering a planet-sized feast of sequential art that'll rewire your synapses. From Argentine maestros 'disappeared' by juntas to Egyptian street artists dodging Mubarak's goons, from Filipina superheroines to Haida manga (yes, you read that right), this book proves that the so-called 'Ninth Art' belongs to everybody, everywhere, always has. Essential, erudite, and never boring—read it or be left choking on the dust!
William A. Nericcio, editor of Amatl Comix and author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America
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Introduction: Tracing a Planetary Republic of Comics
Chapter 1: The Grammar of Comics
Chapter 2: American Comics
Chapter 3: European Comics Traditions
Chapter 4: Japanese Manga
Chapter 5: Manga Beyond Japan
Chapter 6: Latin American Historietas
Chapter 7: African and Middle Eastern Comics
Chapter 8: Translation, Adaptation, and Cross-Cultural Flow
Chapter 9: Comics, Identity, and Social Justice
Chapter 10: Digital Comics and the Future
Coda: The Planetary Future of Comics
Timeline of Global Comics: Major Events and Publications
Further Reading
Glossary of Terms
Index
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