My mother was a typewriter: fun home and the relevance of materiality to comics studies -- Talismans: how print comics have responded to the crisitunity of digital media -- Click and drag: the continuing relevance of print to digital comics -- Guided view: how comics move from print to digital and back -- Between panel and screen: comics that are print and digital at once -- Conclusion: Applications for studying and teaching comics
Summary
"Through case studies of the work of Alison Bechdel, Matt Kindt, Lynda Barry, Carla Speed McNeil, Chris Ware, and Randall Munroe, this monograph argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book"-- Provided by publisher