Comics and Playfulness

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-11-223018-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

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This edited collection offers the first extended study of the manifold interconnections between comics and playfulness. While providing an open and adaptable point of departure for identifying and attributing playfulness across the production, aesthetics, and reception of comics and comics-like works, the book also acknowledges the diverse ways in which both playfulness and comics have been conceptualized and seeks to make productive the tensions within and between these different approaches. To this end, the volume includes contributions from a group of renowned international comics scholars and combines theoretical reflection on both comics and playfulness with detailed analyses of a wide range of case studies across various (analog and digital) comics and related formats, genres, practices, and cultural and historical contexts. Consequently, it marks an innovative contribution to an underexplored area within comics studies. should therefore appeal to researchers and students of both comics studies and game studies, as well as anyone interested in the ever-increasing focus on ludic phenomena in media studies and the humanities more broadly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Kieron

Thon, Jan-Noël

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)

Über Autor(innen)

Kieron Brown and  Jan-Noël Thon , Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany.