9/12/2023 0 Comments Collected curios sequential art![]() pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Copyright © 2013 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2013 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Drawing from life : memory and subjectivity in comic art / edited by Jane Tolmie. The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. E-Book Contentĭrawing from Life Memory and Subjectivity in Comic ArtĮdited by Jane Tolmie University Press of Mississippi / Jackson Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Negotiations between artist/writer/body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics’ viewer. The book engages with well-known figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn-James and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds including English, American studies, comparative literature, gender studies, art history, and cultural studies. ![]() ![]() One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.ĭrawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art is a collection of essays about autobiography, semiautobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades.
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