Comics and Agency

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Comics and Agency

Edited by: Vanessa Ossa , Jan-Noël Thon and Lukas R. A. Wilde

Volume 1 in the series Comics Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754483

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About this book

This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, “authorship” can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.

Author / Editor information

Vanessa Ossa, University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany; Jan-Noël Thon, Osnabrück University, Germany; Lukas R.A. Wilde, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Comics and Agency Introduction Vanessa Ossa, Jan-Noël Thon and Lukas R. A. Wilde Open Access Download PDF	1
What We Do with Comics: The Agency of Collectors in Dylan Horrock’s Hicksville Henry Jenkins Open Access Download PDF	23
Tintin’s Global Journey: Editors as Invisible Actors behind the Comics Industry of the 1960s Jessica Burton Open Access Download PDF	43
How a German Publisher Appropriates Comics It Did Not Originally Publish Romain Becker Open Access Download PDF	59
The Agents of Doom: An Empirical Approach to Transmedia Actors Mark Hibbett Open Access Download PDF	81
Agency in the Making: Distribution and Publication as Topics in Nikolas Mahler’s Die Goldgruber Chroniken and the Anthology Drawn & Quarterly Barbara Margarethe Eggert Open Access Download PDF	101
Comics Artist versus Artistic Genius: Kverneland and Fiske’s Approach to Artists, Metafiction, and Allusion to Contemporary Sources in Kanon Laura Glötter Open Access Download PDF	119
Death of the Endless and Fan Projections Ashumi Shah and Anke Marie Bock Open Access Download PDF	143
“I Always Win”: Corporate Comics, Delinquent Fans, and the Body of Richard C. Meyer Christopher Pizzino Open Access Download PDF	171
Pilgrimage to Hall H: Fan Agency at Comic-Con Matthew J. Smith Open Access Download PDF	189
Librarians, Agency, Young People, and Comics: Graphic Account and the Development of Graphic Novel Collections in Libraries in Britain in the 1990s Mel Gibson Open Access Download PDF	201
Learning from Pupils about Conviviality Cathérine Lehnerer Open Access Download PDF	217
Ada in the Jungle and Aya of Yop City: Negotiating “Africa” in Comics Jörn Ahrens Open Access Download PDF	237
Telling Stories with Photo Archives: Intermedial Agency in Documentary Comics Greice Schneider Open Access Download PDF	267
Who Controls the Speech Bubbles? Reflecting on Agency in Comic-Games Hans-Joachim Backe Open Access Download PDF	283
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	301
Index Open Access Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of comics studies; cultural studies; fan studies; literary studies; media studies; visual culture studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 305
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 55
- Coloured Tables: 8
Keywords: agency; comics; fan culture; participatory culture

eBook

Published: November 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110754483

Hardcover

Published: November 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110754407