Mini-Thoughts on Minicomics

A Photocopying Fantasia
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-16858-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 405 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes, the affective histories that surround minicomics, and the implications for conceptualizing the subject that writes, draws, photocopies, distributes, reads, and stores minicomics.  contains chapters on stapling and archiving but is primarily concerned with xerography and the social contexts in which comics are made using photocopiers. The focus is on US texts and contexts, though minicomics from Britain and elsewhere in the world are also included.  is informed by comics history, media archaeology, folklore studies, workplace ethnography, ontology of paperwork, and critical theory, and the book analyzes how creators have reflected on the making of minicomics through published interviews and as depicted in minicomics themselves.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Please Swipe Card.- Chapter 1: Memory Full.- Chapter 2: Add Staples.- Chapter 3: Paper Jam.- Chapter 4: Cancelled Job.- Chapter 5: Original Size Cannot Be Detected. Conclusion: Log Off?.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Williams is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. In addition to articles on comics published in journals such as , , , and , he has written four books:  (2022), (2020), (2012), and (2011). He co-edited the collection  (2010) with James Lyons.