The Art of Comics · A Philosophical Approach (New Directions in Aesthetics) by Meskin, Aaron -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Editors’ Acknowledgments Figures Contributors Foreword The Art and Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction

1 Introduction to the Introduction 2 What We Are Doing, and Why 3 A Short History of Comics 4 Comics Scholarship and the Philosophy of Comics: A Brief History 5 The Contributions

Part One The Nature and Kinds of Comics 1 Redefining Comics

McCloud’s Definition Pictures and Comics Panels, Panels Everywhere Seeing-in and Closure Pictureless Comics? Wordless Prints, Unprinted Words Spaces Between Words The Air of Non-Pictures A Continuum of Cases Comic Books and Ideal Books

2 The Ontology of Comics

Introduction Multiplicity How Are Instances of Comics Created? Autographic and Allographic Conclusion

3 Comics and Collective Authorship

Introduction A Cautious Set-Up Minimal Authorship (of Sorts) Minimal Authorship (of the Comic Sort) Some Work for a Theory of Comic Authorship Illustrating Robust Comic Authorship Comic Authorship of the McCloudian Sort Appropriation Cases Commission Cases Collaborative Cases Non-Collaborative Cases Final Thoughts

4 Comics and Genre

Introduction Desiderata for an Account of Genre Existing Accounts of Genre An Account of Genre Conclusion

Part Two Comics and Representation 5 Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics

Illustrated Books: A First Step The Image-Text Complex in Comics The Image The Text How Comics Work An Objection Conclusion

6 What’s So Funny? Comic Content in Depiction

Where are the Funnies? Writing Images, Drawing Words Without Words Just Looking Where’s the Fun? “What’s That For?” Arts and Artifacts

7 The Language of Comics1

Introduction A Pre-Emptive Strike How Comics Mean The Unified Comic Conclusion

Part Three Comics and the Other Arts 8 Making Comics into Film 9 Why Comics Are Not Films: Metacomics and Medium‐Specific Conventions1

The Problem The Filmstrip Argument Metacomics Bomb Queen’s Editor Girl The Filth’s Max Thunderstone Conventions and Aesthetic Analysis Conclusions

10 Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: The Comics Version Index