Art History for Comics

Chapter 1 Why Does Comics Studies Need Art History (and Vice Versa)?

Chapter 2 Establishing Canons, Styles and Schools at the Dawn of Comics Studies

Chapter 3 Iconography and Cultural History in Comics Studies

Chapter 4 Art History Turned Upside Down: David Kunzle and the Social History of Art

Chapter 5 Variations of Formalism, Modernism, Abstraction

Chapter 6 Challenging Canons and the Challenge of Style: Visualising the Baroque Storyworld of Judge Dredd’s “The Cursed Earth”

Chapter 7 Iconography for Comics Studies Reconsidered: Interpreting Visual Transformations in Jack Kirby’s The Mighty Thor

Chapter 8 Cultural History for Comics Studies: Reinterpreting the Eagle and “Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future”

Chapter 9 A Social History of Comics Art: Looking at Writers and Readers’ Capitalism for Beginners

Chapter 10 Re-framing the Avant-Garde: Different Ways of Seeing Escape

Chapter 11 Modernism and Comics Revisited: Form and Fragmentation in Alan Moore’s “I Can Hear the Grass Grow”

Chapter 12 Conclusion: Future Directions

Chapter 13 Correction to: Modernism and Comics Revisited: Form and Fragmentation in Alan Moore’s “I Can Hear the Grass Grow”