Animal Comics Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives [Hardcover]

Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging fromKrazy KatandMaustoWE3andTerra Formars.Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images,Animal Comicsdraws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal environments and human-animal relationships to shed new light on comics and graphic novels in which animal agents play a significant role. At the same time, the volume's international team of contributors show how the distinctive structures and affordances of graphic narratives foreground key questions about trans-species entanglements in a more-than-human world. The writers/artists covered in the book include: Nick Abadzis, Adolpho Avril, Jeffrey Brown, Sue Coe, Matt Dembicki, Olivier Deprez, J. J. Grandville, George Herriman, Adam Hines, William Hogarth, Grant Morrison, Osamu Tezuka, Frank Quitely, Yu Sasuga, Charles M. Schultz, Art Spiegelman, Fiona Staples, Ken'ichi Tachibana, Brian K. Vaughan, and others.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: More-than-Human Worlds in Graphic Storytelling
David Herman

Part I. Animal Agency in the History and Theory of Comics

1. Lions and Tigers and Fears: A Natural History of the Sequential Animal
Daniel F. Yezbick, St Louis Community College, USA

2. The Animalized Character and Style
Glenn Willmott, Queen's University, Canada

Part II. Species of Difference: Functions of Animal Alterity in Graphic Narratives

3. The Politics and Poetics of Alterity in Adam Hines'sDuncan the Wonder Dog
Alex Link, Alberta College of Art & Design, Canada

4. The Saga of the Animal as Visual Metaphor for Mixed-Race Identity in Comics
Michael A. Chaney, Dartmouth College, USA

5. Curly Tails and Flying Dogs: Structures of Affect in Nick Abadzi'sLaika
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