Comics and Intermediality
Will be published approx. on 15. July 2026
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-4968-6309-6 (ISBN)
Description
Contributions by Karine Abadie, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jan Baetens, Paul Fisher Davies, Brian Fies, Meags Fitzgerald, Frederik Byrn Kohlert, Melanie Leclerc, Nancy Pedri, Giada Peterle, Barbara Postema, Veronique Sina, Sarah Thorne, and Paul Tucker
Comics and Intermediality offers a fresh look at comics through the lens of intermediality, exploring how comics intersect with, draw from, and expand upon other visual, verbal, and multimodal narrative forms. Contributors from across disciplines and countries examine how comics mediate essential artistic elements-language, movement, space, and time-and how their hybrid nature invites new ways of thinking about art, narrative, and media. The collection features interviews with cartoonists Brian Fies, Meags Fitzgerald, Melanie Leclerc, and Paul Tucker.
Moving beyond traditional word/image binaries to focus on intermedial storytelling practices, this volume reimagines core concepts like panel, frame, sequence, and gesture, revealing how comics communicate across media boundaries. Whether referencing cinema, literature, or the digital arts, these essays illuminate the expressive power of comics and their place in a broader cultural and media landscape.
Comics and Intermediality offers a fresh look at comics through the lens of intermediality, exploring how comics intersect with, draw from, and expand upon other visual, verbal, and multimodal narrative forms. Contributors from across disciplines and countries examine how comics mediate essential artistic elements-language, movement, space, and time-and how their hybrid nature invites new ways of thinking about art, narrative, and media. The collection features interviews with cartoonists Brian Fies, Meags Fitzgerald, Melanie Leclerc, and Paul Tucker.
Moving beyond traditional word/image binaries to focus on intermedial storytelling practices, this volume reimagines core concepts like panel, frame, sequence, and gesture, revealing how comics communicate across media boundaries. Whether referencing cinema, literature, or the digital arts, these essays illuminate the expressive power of comics and their place in a broader cultural and media landscape.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jackson
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
47 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4968-6309-6 (9781496863096)
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Nancy Pedri is professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she has taught since 2006. She is an award-winning author and has published extensively in the fields of comics studies and word and image studies, including photography in literature. She is coeditor, with Silke Horstkotte, of Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics and author of A Concise Dictionary of Comics, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.
Content
Comics and Intermediality
Chapter 1: Introduction: Comics and Intermediality
Karine Abadie and Nancy Pedri
Chapter 2: Beyond the Word/?Image Relation: Rethinking Comics Through Intermediality (and Intermediality Through Comics) -Nancy Pedri
Chapter 3: Interview with Comics Creator Brian Fies
Intermedial Spaces in Comics
Chapter 4: Comics and Maps, Comics as Maps: Exploring Intermedial Connections and Metaphorical Interactions in Comic Book Cartographies -Giada Peterle
Chapter 5: Comics, Games, and Intermedial-Specific Analysis -Sarah Thorne
Chapter 6: Builtspaces, Intersectional Identities, and Comics -Frederick Luis Aldama
Chapter 7: Interview with Comics Creator Paul Tucker
Intermediality in Practice
Chapter 8: Paratextual Intermediality in the Comics of Chester Brown -Frederik Byrn Kohlert
Chapter 9: The Queer (Inter)Mediality of Comics: Coming Out and Coming of Age in Le bleu est une couleur chaude and La vie d'Adele
Veronique Sina
Chapter 10: Interview with Comics Creator Meags Fitzgerald
Intermediality and Comics Narrative
Chapter 11: The Space-Time Continuum in Two Dimensions: Intermedial Time in Comics -Barbara Postema
Chapter 12: Movement in Word and Image: On Rhythm Inside the Panels -Jan Baetens
Chapter 13: Language as an Intermediary in Comics Creation -Paul Fisher Davies
Chapter 14: Interview with Comics Creator Melanie Leclerc
Chapter 15: Conclusion: An Intermedial Approach to Comics -Nancy Pedri
Contributors
Index
Chapter 1: Introduction: Comics and Intermediality
Karine Abadie and Nancy Pedri
Chapter 2: Beyond the Word/?Image Relation: Rethinking Comics Through Intermediality (and Intermediality Through Comics) -Nancy Pedri
Chapter 3: Interview with Comics Creator Brian Fies
Intermedial Spaces in Comics
Chapter 4: Comics and Maps, Comics as Maps: Exploring Intermedial Connections and Metaphorical Interactions in Comic Book Cartographies -Giada Peterle
Chapter 5: Comics, Games, and Intermedial-Specific Analysis -Sarah Thorne
Chapter 6: Builtspaces, Intersectional Identities, and Comics -Frederick Luis Aldama
Chapter 7: Interview with Comics Creator Paul Tucker
Intermediality in Practice
Chapter 8: Paratextual Intermediality in the Comics of Chester Brown -Frederik Byrn Kohlert
Chapter 9: The Queer (Inter)Mediality of Comics: Coming Out and Coming of Age in Le bleu est une couleur chaude and La vie d'Adele
Veronique Sina
Chapter 10: Interview with Comics Creator Meags Fitzgerald
Intermediality and Comics Narrative
Chapter 11: The Space-Time Continuum in Two Dimensions: Intermedial Time in Comics -Barbara Postema
Chapter 12: Movement in Word and Image: On Rhythm Inside the Panels -Jan Baetens
Chapter 13: Language as an Intermediary in Comics Creation -Paul Fisher Davies
Chapter 14: Interview with Comics Creator Melanie Leclerc
Chapter 15: Conclusion: An Intermedial Approach to Comics -Nancy Pedri
Contributors
Index