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Book SynopsisRegarding Frames explores the ways that literary comics engage readers in the mutual construction of meaning. Part interpretive criticism, part philosophical meditation, Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-First Century explores the ways that literary comics engage readers in the mutual construction of meaning. Kwa draws from a wide range of philosophical, critical, and theoretical texts to analyze the visual and verbal narrative strategies that artists use. She examines the work of comic artists Gabrielle Bell, Michael DeForge, Kevin Huizenga, Laura Park, and Dash Shaw who construct their particular visions of the world. These creators' experiments with form pose questions about the difference between how things appear to be and how they are. Regarding Frames makes a case for the rewards of close reading at the surface.
Table of Contentsix Preface and Acknowledgments xix Introduction Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-First Century 1 Chapter 1 Gabrielle Bell Makes Her Point 39 Chapter 2 Lingering at the Surface: Kevin Huizenga's Rhythmic Time Signatures 79 Chapter 3 Next Level: Separations in the Work of Dash Shaw 109 Chapter 4 The Impossible Objects of Michael DeForge 153 Chapter 5 Tiny Voices: Laura Park and the Narratives of Scale 179 Epilogue 183 Bibliography 194 Index 204 Colophon
