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<span class="gmail-label">Edited by</span> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Contributors/W/Woo-Benjamin__;!!KGKeukY!hCYoFpPT6GljVYfPn_oyyO2n31Xiku0ObgBioPnLEiznN-dlQZ7DcnaW2fY4YtyviQEGD3CeqrSG$">Benjamin Woo</a> & <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Contributors/S/Stoll-Jeremy__;!!KGKeukY!hCYoFpPT6GljVYfPn_oyyO2n31Xiku0ObgBioPnLEiznN-dlQZ7DcnaW2fY4YtyviQEGDyrqSk0F$">Jeremy Stoll</a><br>
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9781496834645,
286 pages,
23 b&w illustrations; 9 tables,
July 2021<br>
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9781496834652,
286 pages,
23 b&w illustrations; 9 tables,
July 2021</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Comics-World__;!!KGKeukY!hCYoFpPT6GljVYfPn_oyyO2n31Xiku0ObgBioPnLEiznN-dlQZ7DcnaW2fY4YtyviQEGD3vi7PRS$">https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Comics-World</a>
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<p>Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner,
Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny
Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz,
Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada
Wilson, and Benjamin Woo</p><p><i>The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics </i>is
the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation,
and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view.
Designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and methods
in comics studies, this volume draws on approaches from fields as
diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore,
communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social
life of comics and graphic novels. </p><p>Taking the concept of a
“comics world”—that is, the collection of people, roles, and
institutions that “produce” comics as they are—as its organizing
principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape
how comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a
specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of their
publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and
journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars
themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the
ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships
created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics
and comics studies. </p><p>Moving beyond the page, <i>The Comics World</i>
explores the complexity of the lived reality of the comics world: how
comics and graphic novels matter to different people at different times,
within a social space shared with others.</p>
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<p>"In <i>The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics</i>,
Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll have brought together a number of
interesting perspectives to make an important contribution to comics
studies. "</p>
<span class="gmail-source">- Liam Burke, author of The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre</span> </blockquote>
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