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Book SynopsisMeet Gwendolyn - living proof that princesses don’t always have it all. Although she lives in a castle and her father is the King, Gwendolyn isn’t like a fairy-tale princess and isn’t conventionally attractive. But one night, she accidentally stumbles upon the twisted world of the Cursed Princess Club, and her life will never be the same. Hexed and cast out, the ladies of the club are just the people Gwendolyn needs to show her that just because she doesn’t “fit the mold” does not mean she’s any less of a princess. In this second book of the series, we learn low self esteem isn’t just for girls! Meet the Princels - princes who have shunned society not because of curses (although one has to wonder…) but because of their own insecurities about their physical appearance and their inabilities to find romantic partners. And then we have Prince Frederick, who starts to worry if he even deserves Gwen. Plus, you too can learn to be as pretty as a Cursed Princess!

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Book SynopsisJust because you're cursed doesn't mean you're not special. Gwendolyn, the youngest of the King's three daughters, is living proof that princesses don't always have it all. She isn't like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn't particularly attractive. Unlike her sisters who have woodland creatures do their hair and makeup, or have flowers blossom wherever they sleep, Gwendolyn is a bit.different. So when her father proposes marriage for her and her sisters to make an alliance with the Plaid Kingdom, it breaks Gwendolyn's heart to hear that Prince Frederick thinks she's "really ugly." Overwhelmed and ashamed, she runs away into the forest and encounters the twisted world of the Cursed Princess Club, where her life will never be the same. The Cursed Princess Club are a ragtag band of outcasts, misfits and cursed princesses who have created an incredible friendship circle. It is among these friends where Gwendolyn learns to embrace her uniqueness and find her people. In this second book of the series, we learn low self esteem isn't just for girls! Meet the Princels-princes who have shunned society not because of curses (although one has to wonder.) but because of their own insecurities about their physical appearance and their inability to find romantic partners. And then we have Prince Frederick, who starts to worry if he even deserves Gwen. Plus, you too can learn to be as pretty as a Cursed Princess!

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Book SynopsisMori Jin is a high school student and Taekwondo specialist who enters The God of High School, a fighting tournament that promises the winner anything they want.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the questioning of some of its deep-rooted categories and procedures, it also appraises what comics and Comics Studies afford and ask of Art History. This book draws together the work of international scholars applying art-historical methodologies to the study of a range of comic strips, books, cartoons, graphic novels and manga, who, as well as being researchers, are also educators, artists, designers, curators, producers, librarians, editors, and writers, with some undertaking practice-based research. Many are trained art historians, but others come from, have migrated into, or straddle other disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and a range of subjects within Art & Design practice.Table of ContentsWays of Seeing Comics: Art-Historical Approaches to the Form.Part I Old Skool Art History.The Lives of the Artists.Connoisseurship, Attribution, and Comic Strip Art: The Case of Jack B. Yeats.Reading Comics with Aby Warburg: Collaging Memories.Part II Perception, Reception and Meaning.Psychologies of Perception: Stories of Depiction.Aesthetics of Reception: Uncovering the Modes of Interaction in Comics.Reading Richard Felton Outcault’s “Yellow Kid” Through Perception of the Image.Colour in Comics: Reading Lorenzo Mattotti Through the Lens of Art History.Part III The New and Newer Art Histories.Feminist Art History as an Approach to Research on Comics: Meta Reflections on Studies of Swedish Feminist Comics.Towards Feminist Comics Studies: Feminist Art History and the Study of Women’s Comix in the 1970s in the United States.Real Queer Bodies: Visual Weight and Imagined Gravity in Sport Manga.Part IV Comics for/Beyond Art History.Afrofuturism and Animism as Method: Art History and Decolonisation in Black Panther.What Is an Image? Art History, Visual Culture Studies, and Comics Studies.From Giotto to Drnaso: The Common Well of Pictorial Schema in ‘High’ Art and ‘Low’ Comics.VAST/O Exhibition (De)Construction: Exploring the Potentials of Augmented Abstract Comics and Animation Installations as a Method to Communicate Health Experiences.From Tableau to Sequence: Introducing Comics Theory Within Art History to Study the Photobook.

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Book SynopsisThis book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material cultures. It fulfils its objectives through three reception studies in the first part of the volume and three chapters by comic creators in the second part. All six chapters aim to grapple with a set of central questions about the power inherent in drawn images of various kinds. Trade Review“A central tenet of the volume is that both comics and archaeology are political. … Being the author and illustrator of numerous archaeology comics, John G. Swogger shows with the aid of strip comic format … archaeologists should promote the community’s feedback and hands-on participation. To prevent community history and preservation from being eclipsed by one-sided portrayals, localized communities should be involved in creating content for comics.” (Johannes H. N. Loubser, AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, June 29, 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Comics and Archaeology?.‘The Aliens from 2,000 B.C.!’: Truth, Fiction and Pseudoarchaeology in American Comic Books.Panels from the South Seas: Pacific Colonialism, Archaeology, and Pseudoscience in Francophone Bande Dessinée.Making Sargon Great Again: Reuse and Reappropriation of Ancient Mesopotamian Imagery in Fan-Art of the Online Right.Creating Comics for Public Engagement in Roman Aeclanum: Illustrating Ancient History.“Mix, Mould, Fire!”: Comic Art and Educational Outreach Inspired by Archaeology.“They Do Things Differently There”: Articulating the Unfamiliar Past in Community Heritage Comics.

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