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Colin Beineke, Shawn Gilmore - Comics of Karen Berger, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Comics of Karen Berger

The Art of Editing

Av Colin Beineke, Shawn Gilmore

329 kr

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Contributions by Colin Beineke, Jenny Bingham-Blenk, Spencer Chalifour, Keith Friedlander, Shawn Gilmore, Richard Graham, Vincent Haddad, D. R. Hammontree, Krystal Howard, Jenette Kahn, Susan E. Kirtley, Lee Konstantinou, Samantha Langsdale, Isabelle Licari-Guillaume, Josh Rose, and Julia Round The Comics of Karen Berger: The Art of Editing is the first scholarly volume to comprehensively examine the editorial career and creative legacy of Karen Berger, a transformative figure in the history of American comics. Edited by Colin Beineke and Shawn Gilmore, the book gathers original essays and interviews that analyze Berger’s contributions across her decades-spanning career—from her early editorial work at DC Comics to her founding of the genre-defining Vertigo imprint, and her more recent creation of Berger Books at Dark Horse. The volume positions Berger as an artistic force whose curatorial choices and collaborative ethos paved the way for complex narratives, creator ownership, gender diversity, and literary experimentation in mainstream and independent comics alike. Organized into two parts—critical essays and interviews with visual artists, writers, and editors—this collection highlights the underappreciated but pivotal role of the editor in comics creation. The essays illuminate Berger’s early ethos in titles like Amethyst and Wonder Woman, her development of Vertigo’s brand identity, and her continued influence on contemporary comics culture. Meanwhile, interviews with key collaborators such as George Pérez, Jill Thompson, Peter Milligan, and Shelly Bond offer firsthand accounts of Berger’s editorial process, mentorship, and leadership style. Together, these pieces not only recover Berger’s invisible labor but also challenge prevailing auteurist models of comics authorship, proposing instead an expanded framework that recognizes editors as vital cocreators. The Comics of Karen Berger redefines how we understand creativity, authorship, and power in comics, offering a compelling portrait of editorial work as artistic practice.
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Colin Beineke is assistant teaching professor of English at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University. His writings have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, ImageText, The International Journal of Comic Art, and INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, and he has contributed chapters to the collections Comics Studies Here and Now and Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman. Shawn Gilmore is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is editor of the Vault of Culture (vaultofculture.com), a public scholarship site that features work by a range of scholars and lay writers over a variety of cultural objects, from comics to film to novels to video games and everything in between. He is also executive secretary of the Comics Studies Society.Julia Round is an independent scholar and editor of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series. Her books include the award-winning Gothic for Girls: "Misty" and British Comics; Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Critical Approach; and the coauthored Comics and Graphic Novels. She has also coedited Horror and Comics, Multimodal Comics: The Evolution of Comics Studies, and The Routledge Companion to Literary Media and published over fifty articles and book chapters in journals and collections including Gothic Studies, Language and Literature, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, International Journal of Comic Art, and Children’s Literature in Education.Jenette Kahn is a partner at Double Nickel Entertainment, a production company whose films include Gran Torino, The Flock, The Book of Henry, and A Kid Like Jake. Previously, she spent twenty-seven years at DC Comics and MAD Magazine, where she served as president and editor-in-chief, making history as the company’s first woman and youngest division president. A Harvard graduate and Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductee, she is also the creator of influential youth magazines like Dynamite, founder of the Wonder Woman Foundation, and author of the book In Your Space.

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"Karen Berger’s visionary role in shaping the Vertigo imprint under DC Comics is all the more remarkable given that she is working in a male-dominated field. Beineke and Gilmore bring attention to the underappreciated role of the editor as a collaborator rather than simply as a passive gatekeeper. This book will forever change the way I think about comics history. Karen Berger was able to foster groundbreaking work within mainstream comics, opening the field to female cartoonists, editors, and readers, which is no small achievement." - Martha B. Kuhlman, coeditor of The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking"Karen Berger’s impact on not only DC but the whole of comics has been ignored for far too long, Beineke and Gilmore are finally giving her the scholarly attention she deserves. One of the nice things about this volume is that they subtly perform homage to Berger in their own editorial philosophy. A thoughtfully developed, long-overdue encomium to one of the greatest comics editors in history." - Kate Polak, author of Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics

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