(Routledge Advances in Comics Studies) 1st Edition
by Frederick Luis Aldama (Editor)
Comics Studies Here and Now
marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels
the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The
essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics
history and others by analyzing comics―and all its transmedial and
fan-fictional offshoots―on its own terms. Comics Studies stakes
the flag of our arrival―the arrival of comics studies as a full-fledged
discipline that today and tomorrow excavates, examines, discusses, and
analyzes all aspects that make up the resplendent planetary republic of
comics. This collection of scholarly essays is a testament to the fact
that comic book studies have come into their own as an academic
discipline; simply and powerfully moving comic studies forward with
their critical excavations and theoretical formulas based on the common
sense understanding that comics add to the world as unique,
transformative cultural phenomena.
