ReDrawing of Narrative Boundaries: An Introduction

ReDrawing of Narrative Boundaries: An Introduction provides an overview of the comics studies field as it relates to discussions and debates regarding its relationship to the study of literature and the arts. It provides a snapshot of today\u27s comics studies field, including how the scholarly essays collected for this special issue, “A Planetary Republic of Comic Book Letters: Drawing Expansive Narrative Boundaries, work to deepen and widen our understanding of comics, and comics from all over the planet. Individually and collectively they eschew the lean toward the fill-in-the-blank (lit, film, etc.) comparisons, and instead excavate and theorize comics on their own terms

An Unexpected Life Through Comics: An Interview with Ben Katchor

This interview conducted with Ben Katchor takes readers on a journey through his life, work, and different eras of comic strip and comic book creation. Katchor shares with Frederick Luis Aldama his origins as a word and drawing storyteller as well as his trials, tribulations, and successes throughout the latter 20th century

Literary Studies Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. An Interview with Jonathan Culler

Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Jonathan Culler on the past, the present, and the future of literary studies in general and narratology in particular

New Horizons: Cognitive and Narrative Approaches to US Ethnic and Postcolonial Film, Animation, Graphic Novel, and the Arts

<p>Introduction on issue 'New Horizons in the Analysis of US Ethnic and Postcolonial Film and Animation Narrative'.</p&gt