Multimodal Comics

Madeline Gangnes is an assistant professor of English at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, USA. She is a co-editor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials. Her work appears in Studies in Comics, theJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the Victorian Periodicals Review, and Key Terms in Comics Studies, among other publications.Professor Christopher Murray is professor of Comics Studies and English Literature in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He leads the Masters in Comics and Graphic Novels and is director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies and Dundee Comics Creative Space. He is a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics.Julia Round’s books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is associate professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and one of the founders and co-editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.

• List of FiguresForewordRoger SabinIntroductionMadeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia RoundSECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY The Shape of Comic Book ReadingA. David LewisRe-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Regis Loisel’s Peter Pan Armelle Blin-RollandThe Myth of Eco: Cultural Populism and Comics StudiesMarc SingerIntertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for AdultsPascal LefèvreSECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL Spiegelman’s Magic Box: MetaMaus and the Archive of RepresentationElisabeth R. FriedmanMeaning from Movement: Blurring the Temporal Border between Animation and ComicsJoshua GowdySECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE Narrative, Language, and Comics-as-LiteratureHannah MiodragThe Cognitive Grammar of ‘I’: Viewing Arrangements in Graphic AutobiographiesChristian W. SchneiderSECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION Sound Affects: Visualizing Music, Musicians, and (Sub)Cultural Identity in BECK and Scott PilgrimCamilo Diaz PinoThe Musicalization of Graphic Narratives and P. Craig Russell’s Graphic Novel Operas, 'The Magic Flute' and 'Salome'Victoria AddisSECTION FIVE: FROM MATERIAL TO TRANSTEXTUAL AND BEYOND 'Animating' the Narrative in Abstract ComicsPaul Fisher DaviesMultimodal Duck-Rabbitry: Multistable Perception and the Narrative Potential of Fold-InsThomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross WatkinsResisting Narrative ImmersionGreice SchneiderSquare Eyes: Augmenting Bodies, Boredom, and ThingsMerlyn SellerAfterwordMadeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round Notes on ContributorsIndex