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Boyd, David John and Julie Briand-Boyd. Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity: The comics art of frank quitely. Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels. Leuven: Leuven Univ. Press, 2025. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
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DOI: 10.11116/9789461666529
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9789462704664
BibTeX citation key: Boyd2025
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Keywords: Quitely. Frank, United Kingdom, USA
Creators: Boyd, Briand-Boyd
Publisher: Leuven Univ. Press (Leuven)		 Views: 10/1597
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Abstract
Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity explores the life and career of Glasgow-born, Eisner Award-winning, and internationally acclaimed Marvel, DC, and Image Comics artist Frank Quitely. With a prolific career spanning more than three decades, Quitely played a pivotal role in the British superhero renaissance of the 1990s and 2000s and in the explosive emergence of the Scottish new wave of comics, a movement that included peers like Alan Grant, Mark Millar, and Grant Morrison, but has been underrepresented in both comics studies and Scottish studies. This work investigates questions of historical and contemporary expressions of Scottishness in transcultural comics genres such as superhero, science fiction, and fantasy. Framed through the lens of comics and literary genres, as well as their British and American editors, Quitely’s approach to Scottishness is oblique and self-reflexive; his expressions of Scottishness are tensely bound to current nuanced examinations of Scottish national, literary and historical subjectivity. His work oscillates between two axiomatic antipodes: the regional, provincial, and local versus the transnational, cosmopolitan, and global.
This comprehensive study also features an in-depth interview with Quitely, as well as unearthed archives, sketchbooks, notes, and donated or personal artworks not available elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Part 1—Sketching Scotland
Introduction. The Scottish Connection
Chapter 1. Frank Quitely’s Portraits of Scottishness
Chapter 2. Frank Quitely’s Landscapes of Scottishness

Part 2—The Garden of Two Glasgows
Chapter 3. Frank Quitely’s Angelic Doubles
Chapter 4. Frank Quitely’s Devilish Derivations

Part 3—The Bottled City of Glasgow
Chapter 5. Frank Quitely as Global Artist
Chapter 6. Frank Quitely as Local Artist

Conclusion. From Glasgow to Gotham
The Glasgow Interviews. A Conversation with Frank Quitely

Bibliography
Index


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