Perfect Copies

Shiamin Kwa is an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century for the Comics Studies (RIT Press, 2020).

• Introduction1          The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters2          Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Haptic Dreams of Gareth Brookes3          Phantom Threads: Seeing in the Dark and Conor Stechschulte4          If You See Something Say Something: Nick Drnaso's Sabrina5          There is a Monster in My Closet: Brecht Evens's PantherConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"Perfect Copies is about the creation and impact of comics that skirt the line of what readers might imagine would be considered typical within the medium. This book pushes readers to think about the ways that comics creators nudge the boundaries of how comics might look, "read" and visually "feel." It is a must read for everyone who loves the ways that comics have revolutionized art and aesthetics and that art has revolutionized comics and notions of reproduction."— Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, Dean of Liberal Arts, UNC School of The Arts