Multimodal Comics

List of Figures



Foreword



Roger Sabin



Introduction



Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round



SECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY





The Shape of Comic Book Reading



A. David Lewis




Re-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up: Regis Loisel's Peter Pan


Armelle Blin-Rolland





The Myth of Eco: Cultural Populism and Comics Studies


Marc Singer





Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults


Pascal Lefevre



SECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL





Spiegelman's Magic Box: MetaMaus and the Archive of Representation


Elisabeth R. Friedman





Meaning from Movement: Blurring the Temporal Border between Animation and Comics


Joshua Gowdy



SECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE





Narrative, Language, and Comics-as-Literature


Hannah Miodrag





The Cognitive Grammar of 'I': Viewing Arrangements in Graphic Autobiographies


Christian W. Schneider



SECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION





Sound Affects: Visualizing Music, Musicians, and (Sub)Cultural Identity in BECK and Scott Pilgrim


Camilo Diaz Pino





The Musicalization of Graphic Narratives and P. Craig Russell's Graphic Novel Operas, 'The Magic Flute' and 'Salome'


Victoria Addis



SECTION FIVE: FROM MATERIAL TO TRANSTEXTUAL AND BEYOND





'Animating' the Narrative in Abstract Comics


Paul Fisher Davies





Multimodal Duck-Rabbitry: Multistable Perception and the Narrative Potential of Fold-Ins


Thomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross Watkins





Resisting Narrative Immersion


Greice Schneider





Square Eyes: Augmenting Bodies, Boredom, and Things


Merlyn Seller



Afterword



Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round







Notes on Contributors



Index