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Jacobs, Dale. On Comics and Grief. Crossing Lines. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2024. Added by: joachim (11/6/23, 12:02 PM) Last edited by: joachim (4/30/24, 6:38 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781771126052 BibTeX citation key: Jacobs2024 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Autobiography, Publishing, USA Creators: Jacobs Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press (Waterloo) |
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Structured around a year of comic books with a cover date of 1976, the year the author turned ten, the book is divided into an Introduction plus twelve sections, each a month of the publishing year. Two comic books are highlighted each month and examined through the interwoven lenses of creative nonfiction and comics studies. Through these twenty-four comics, the book addresses the major comic book publishers and virtually all genres of comics published in 1976. By pushing the ways in which the personal is used in comics studies, combining different modes of writing, and embracing a fragmentary style, the book explores what is possible in academic writing in general and comics studies in particular. On Comics and Grief both acts as a way for the author to process his grief and uses grief as a way to think about the comics themselves through the emotions and personal connections that underlie the work we do as scholars. |