The Art of Comics A Philosophical Approach

by Meskin, Aaron; Cook, Roy T.; Ellis, Warren

• ISBN13: 9781444334647
• ISBN10: 1444334646
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. In an area of growing philosophical interest, this volume constitutes a great leap forward in the development of this fast expanding field, and makes a powerful contribution to the philosophy of art. The first-ever anthology to address the philosophical issues raised by the art of comics Provides an extensive and thorough introduction to the field, and to comics more generally Responds to the increasing philosophical interest in comic art Includes a preface by the renowned comics author Warren Ellis Many of the chapters are illustrated, and the book carries a stunning cover by the rising young comics star David Heatley

Author Biography

Aaron Meskin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on aesthetics and other philosophical subjects. His work on comics has been published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the British Journal of Aesthetics.  He was the first aesthetics editor for the online journal Philosophy Compass, and he co-edited Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). He is a former Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics and is Treasurer of the British Society of Aesthetics.

Roy T. Cook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a Resident Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on philosophical logic, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, and more recently on the aesthetics of comics. He previously edited The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction (2007), and is the author of A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic (2009).

Table of Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xii
The Art and Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction	p. xiv
The Nature and Kinds of Comics	p. 1
Redefining Comics	p. 3
The Ontology of Comics	p. 31
Comics and Collective Authorship	p. 47
Comics and Genre	p. 68
Comics and Representation	p. 85
Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics	p. 87
What's So Funny? Comic Content in Depiction	p. 105
The Language of Comics	p. 125
Comics and the Other Arts	p. 145
Making Comics into Film	p. 147
Why Comics Are Not Films: Metacomics and Medium-Specific Conventions	p. 165
Proust's In Search of Lost Time: The Comics Version	p. 188
Index	p. 203
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