Contents
Editors’ Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword / Warren Ellis
The Art and Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction / Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook
Part I. The Nature and Kinds of Comics
1. Redefining Comics / John Holbo
2. The Ontology of Comics / Aaron Meskin
3. Comics and Collective Authorship / Christy Mag Uidhir
4. Comics and Genre / Catharine Abell
Part II. Comics and Representation
5. Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics / Thomas E. Wartenberg
6. What’s So Funny? Comic Content in Depiction / Patrick Maynard
7. The Language of Comics / Darren Hudson Hick
Part III. Comics and the Other Arts
8. Making Comics into Film / Henry John Pratt
9. Why Comics Are Not Films: Metacomics and MediumSpecific Conventions / Roy T. Cook
10. Proust’s In Search of Lost Time : The Comics Version / David Carrier
Index