The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

by Chris Gavaler

Book Overview

Answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so long as it displays a set of relevant formal features. Drawing from the worlds of art criticism and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350245917
• ISBN13: 9781350245914
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"