New Book: The Comics World
My new book, co-edited with Jeremy Stoll, is now available. The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Their Publics is a collection of interdisciplinary research taking a broadly social-scientific approach to the production, circulation and re-mediation, and reception of comics.
Taking the concept of a “comics world”—that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that “produce” comics as they are—as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of their publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies.
Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and me, Benjamin Woo.
Order it now from the University Press of Mississippi or your local bookseller, or request it from your public or university library.
