This book contributes to metaphor and comics scholarship by bringing together established theories of metaphor and of depiction and applying the result to the analysis of narrative drawing. Miers synthesizes two strands in recent comics scholarship: the analysis of comics as drawn texts, informed by art history and aesthetic philosophy, and the use of contemporary metaphor theory as a lens to examine how meaning is produced in comics. It aims to enrich and substantiate claims about the metaphorical characteristics of pictorial representations, and develop our understanding of how metaphor use is guided by stylistic features of drawing that are characteristic of the comics form.
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Language
Place of publication
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
46 farbige Abbildungen, 53 s/w Abbildungen
XVI, 292 p. 99 illus., 45 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-3-031-95799-4 (9783031957994)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-95800-7
Schweitzer Classification
John Miers is senior lecturer in illustration at Kingston School of Art and associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. He has chapters in
Seeing Comics Through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form
(Palgrave, 2022) and
Representing Acts of Violence in Comics
(2019), and has presented papers at key international peer-reviewed conferences. His recent comics work deals with his experience of living with multiple sclerosis. His first comic on this topic,
So I Guess My Body Pretty Much Hates Me Now
, was produced during a postdoctoral residency in University of the Arts London's Archives and Special Collections Centre at London College of Communication, and voted "Best One-Shot" in the 2020 Broken Frontier awards. Other recent and forthcoming publications in comic form include contributions to the
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
(2021) and
Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly
(2022).
