About the Book

This book is about what happens to comics theory when we privilege the relationship between materiality and the body in the analysis of comics. Focusing on how these factors relate to making, technological reproduction and the experience of reading comics, it aims to establish a new theoretical model for comics studies.

Technological Reproduction and Materiality

Through a close consideration of how technologies of reproduction translate material and embodied traces into the surface of comics, the book argues that tactile and haptic encounters with these surfaces can organise the narrative structure of comics and affect the experience of reading them.

Embodied Encounter and Meaning

The book aims to establish that comics can be thought of as networked sites of embodied encounter in which embodied responses become a register of meaning.