[Comicsstudiessociety] poetry comics?

Joachim Trinkwitz jtr at uni-bonn.de
Tue Sep 15 06:37:25 EDT 2020


Am 12.09.2020 um 20:52 schrieb Patrick D. Holt via ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu>:
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> Does anyone have recommended reading on poetry comics? I'm interested in scholarship on the topic as well as the comics themselves, whether as monographs or anthologies.

My recommendation regarding comics are the anthology "Comics as Poetry", ed. Franklin Einspruch (the volume has a accompanying website, http://www.comicsaspoetry.com/, which links to "Comics Poems" by Einspruch), and Martin Rowson's adaptation of T.S. Eliot's "Waste Land". Both are very fascinating examples for poetry in comics form.

Regarding scholarship, the keyword "Poetry" in the BOBC has a few articles on Rowson's adaptation and a contribution in the "Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel", see https://www.bobc.uni-bonn.de/index.php?action=list_LISTSOMERESOURCES_CORE&method=keywordProcess&id=5503.

Joachim

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