Key Terms in Comics Studies

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Key Terms in Comics Studies
Abstract Comics
Abstraction
Actively Multisensory Comics
Activism
Adaptation
Advertising
Aesthetics
Affect
Album
Allegory
Allusion
Alterity
Alternative Comics
Amar Chitra Katha
Angle
Animation
Annual
Anti-Hero
Applied Comics
Archetype
Architecture
Archive
Art
Art World
Arthrology
Artist
Assemblage
Audience
Author
Autobiography
Autographics
Autonomy
Avant-Garde
Bande Dessinée
Biography
Black and White
Boredom
Braiding
Breakdown
Canon
Caption Box
Caricature
Cartoon
Cartoonist
Celebrity
Censorship
Chaperoned Reading
Childishness
Children’s Comics
Class
Clear Line
Close Reading
Close-Up
Closure
Collaboration
Collectors
Colour
Colourist
Comedy
Comic Book
Comic Strip
Comics
Comics Ages (Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age)
Comics Code
Comics Journalism
Comics Shop
Comics Studies
Comix
Commodity
Composition
Constraint
Convention (Public Fan Gathering)
Conventions
Convergence
Cosplay
Creator
Critical Race Theory
Cultural Theory
Culture Industry
Dénouement
Depiction
Design
Détournement
Dialogic
Diegesis
Digital Comics
Direct Market
Disability Comics
Disability Studies
Discourse
Distant Reading
Documentary
Double Face-Out
Drawing
Ecocriticism
Education
Etching
Ethics
Ethnicity
Exegesis
Experimental Comics
Fable
Fabula
Fairy Tales
Fanboy/Fangirl
Fandom
Fantasy
Fanzine
Feminism
Fic
Film
Floppy
Focalisation
Folklore
Form
Fragmentation
Frame
Fumetti
Funny Animal
Gag
Game
Gaze
Gekiga
Gender
Genealogies
Genotext
Genre
Gesture
Global Manga
Grammatology
Grapheme
Graphiation
Graphic Facilitation
Graphic Medicine
Graphic Novel
Graphic Sketchnoting
Grid
Groundlevel
Gutter
Head Shop
Hermeneutics
Hero
Heteroglossia
Heterosemiosis
History
Horror
Humour
Hybrid
Icon
Iconography
Identity
Illness
Illumination
Illustration
Image
Imageless Comics
Imagetext
Imitation
Index
Influence
Inker
Interaction
Interdisciplinarity
Intermediality
Intersectionality
Intertextuality
Irony
Kitsch
Labour
Language
Legend
Letterer
Letters Page
LGBTQ+
Life Writing
Line
Linguistics
Literature
Lithography
Ludology
Mail Order
Manga
Marcinelle School
Mark
Market
Mass Production
Materialism
Media
Mediation
Medium
Memoir
Memory Studies
Merchandise
Metaphor
Migration
Mimesis
Minicomics
Minor Literature
Mise-en-Page
Mise-en-Scène
Mode
Modernism
Motion Comics
Movement
Multimodal Metaphor
Multimodality
Museums
Music
Myth
Narration
Narrative
Narratology
Narrator
Nationalism
New Materialism
Newave
Newspaper Strips
Ninth Art
Nostalgia
Novelisation
Onomatopoeia
Orientalism
Page
Page Layout
Panel
Paratext
Parody
Pastiche
Pathographics
Pedagogy
Penciller
Periphery
Perspective
Phenotext
Photography
Photonovel
Pictorial Runes
Picture Book
Poetics
Point of View
Polygraphy
Polyphony
Polysemy
Pop Art
Popular Culture
Pornography
Postcolonialism
Posthumanism
Postmodernism
Poststructuralism
Print
Production
Propaganda
Psychoanalysis
Publishing
Punk
Puzzle Comics
Queer Comics
Race
Readers
Reading
Realism
Reception
Referent
Register
Religious Comics
Remediation
Repetition
Representation
Reproduction
Retcon
Rhythm
Romance
Royalty Payment
Satire
Schematism
Science Fiction
Script
Self-Publishing
Self-Reflexivity
Semantics
Semiotics
Senses
Sequence
Serialisation
Sexuality
Shapereader
Shōjo
Shōnen
Sign
Silent Comics
Situationism
Slash
Somaesthetics
Sound
Space
Spatial Projection System
Spatio-Topia
Speech Balloons
Splash
Stereotypes
Story
Storyworld
Structuralism
Style
Stylistics
Subject
Sunday Funnies
Superhero
Suspense
Swiping
Syndicates
Syuzhet
Taste Adjudication
Technology
Temporality
Text
Theme
Thought Bubble
Tijuana Bible
Time
Trace
Tragedy
Transitions
Translation
Transmedia
Transnationalism
Transtextuality
Trauma
Trope
Typography
Underground
Utterance
Vanishing Point
Verisimilitude
Vernacular
Viewing
Villain
Visual Culture
Visual Language Theory
Visualisation
Voice
War
Webcomics
Western
Witness
Wordless Comics
Worldbuilding
Writer
Writing
Zine
Index