Perspectives on Digital Comics

Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff is the associate dean of English at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His writing has appeared in Studies in Comics, Technoculture, the Journal of College Literacy and Learning, Language and Literacy and Sequential Art Narrative in Education. Mike P. Cook is an assistant professor at Auburn University, where he teaches within the English education program. His writing has appeared in The ALAN Review, Sequential Art Narrative in Education, the Journal of Language and Literacy Education, Literacy Research & Instruction and the Journal of College Literacy and Learning.

Table of Contents


Introduction: Digital Comics—Savior or Destroyer of a Medium? (Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff and Mike P. Cook)

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Experiencing the Infinite: An Introduction to Digital Comics ­Phenomenology Through Marvel Infinite Comics (Jayson Quearry)

Considering ComiXology’s Guided View (Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff)

Re-Theorizing the Infinite Canvas: A Space for Comics

and Rhetorical Theories (Rich Shivener)

Documentary Webcomics: Mediality and Contexts (Johannes C.P. Schmid)

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It Came from the Woods (Most Strange Things Do):

Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods and Interactive

Internet Reading (Eden Lee Lackner)

Death’s “Friend Hug”: Analyzing the Personification

of Death in Three Webcomics (Karis Jones)

MAUS (W)HOLES: Reflections on (and in) the Digitization

of Art Spiegelman’s MAUS (John Logie)

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When Funding Is the Issue That Prevents an Issue: Are Digital Comics the Logical Platform of Production in a South African Context? (Ray Whitcher)

Digital Comics in Francophone Countries: Never Too Late

to Be Creative (Chris ­Reyns-Chikuma and Jean Sébastien)

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Upwards and Backwards: Blurred Perspectives on Digital

Comics as Mentor Texts (Teri Holbrook, Melanie Hundley and Bill Holbrook)

Using Digital Comics to Support Information Literacy:

21st Century Research Skills and Authentic Composing (Mike P. Cook and Luke Rodesiler)

Afterword: Losing My Edge (Drew Morton)

About the Contributors

Index