The Comics World
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23 b&w illustrations; 9 tables
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Release Date:29 Jul 2021
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The Comics World

Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics

University Press of Mississippi

. explores the complexity of the lived reality of the comics world: how comics and graphic novels matter to different people at different times, within a social space shared with others.

Through this work, Woo and Stoll have put together one of the most meaningful collections on the future of comics and comics studies in recent memory. Zachary J. A. Rondinelli, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
In The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics, Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll have brought together a number of interesting perspectives to make an important contribution to comics studies. Liam Burke, author of The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre

. is a comics creator and assistant professor and head of science and social science at Columbus College of Art and Design.

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