Global Comics by Aldama, Frederick;

Rövid leírás:

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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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

Tartalomjegyzék:

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