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Abstract This book advances the field of comics studies by attending to some of its most notable problems. It begins with what comics are: a treatment of the history of comics, the contrast between comics and cartoons, the tenuous place of comics in the artworld, and what it is to be a comic in the first place. It turns next to how comics work: what the fundamental media that compose comics are, how they push comics toward specific kinds of representation and expression; how comics are related to film, nongraphic literature, and theater; and what those relations tell us about the possibility of adapting comics into other media. Finally, it takes up why comics matter: what the value of particular comics is and what makes some comics better than others; why comics have been the objects of long-standing cultural condemnation and censorship; and, last, whether the treatment that comics have received is merited.

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