Hellboy's World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins

by Scott Bukatman

Book Overview

Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman's dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened "adventure of reading" in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520288041
• ISBN13: 9780520288041
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"