Knowing and Decoding: Readings of Image-Text References in Superhero Comics (Bildnarrative: Studies on Comics and Picture Stories)

Author: Kibala, Jakob

Color: White

Edition: 1

Number of Pages: 206

Publication Date: 15-07-2019

Details: Comics are not art. Although they are increasingly finding their audience in museums and galleries, appearing in exhibition catalogs, luxuriously designed albums and magnificent facsimile editions, they are still more: entertainment. The US-American superhero comic in particular is an entertainment product whose complexity, depth, and internal coherence no other mainstream medium in the 20th or 21st century has achieved. Comics have a long tradition – and mainstream comics actively draw from the rich pool of stories that have been published for decades. The comic books of publishers DC and Marvel, in particular, have been continuing the sagas of their superheroes for over 80 years. Every month. In hundreds of publications. To this day. The amount of comic knowledge that readers need to keep up with the developments of these comic universes is immeasurably large and continues to grow unchecked. But who still understands all the quotes, allusions, and parodies? Why do these stories still find an audience, radiating beyond the comic medium into television and cinema? This book attempts to provide answers using two comic masterpieces. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Batman and Son exemplify a way of storytelling in which past, long-forgotten stories are connected to new, widely branching myths. Conceptually sophisticated. Graphically advanced. And damn entertaining.

EAN: 9783962340131

Languages: German

Binding: Paperback

Item Condition: Used - Like New

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