Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future - Couverture souple

Livre 3 sur 9: Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Kashtan, Aaron

 
9780814254707: Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future
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ISBN 10 : 0814254705 ISBN 13 : 9780814254707
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2018

Synopsis

2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work

In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to focus on text-based literature, particularly fiction. However, because comics make the effects of materiality visible, they offer a clearer demonstration than prose fiction of how the rise of digital reading platforms transforms the reading experience. Comics help us see the effects of alterations in features such as publication design and typography, whereas in print literature, such transformations often go unnoticed.

With case studies of the work of Alison Bechdel, Matt Kindt, Lynda Barry, Carla Speed McNeil, Chris Ware, and Randall Munroe, Kashtan examines print comics that critique digital technology, comics that are remediated from print to digital and vice versa, and comics that combine print and digital functionality. Kashtan argues that comics are adapting to the rise of digital reading technologies more effectively than print literature has yet done. Therefore, looking at comics gives us a preview of what the future of the book looks like. Ultimately, Between Pen and Pixel argues that as print literature becomes more sensitive to issues of materiality and mediacy, print books will increasingly start to resemble to comic books.

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À propos de l'auteur

Aaron Kashtan is a Lecturer in the University Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Éditeur
Ohio State University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814254705
ISBN 13 
9780814254707
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Nombre de pages
224
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ISBN 10 :  0814213642 ISBN 13 :  9780814213643
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2018
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