Comics & media - Chute, Hillary L.; Jagoda, Patrick; University of Chicago. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry (Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 2014)
"Special issue of Critical inquiry."
Based on Comics: Philosophy & Practice conference held in 2012 at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago.
Includes comics art by contemporary cartoonists Constantin Alajalov, William Ayers and Ryan Alexander, Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Barry Blitt, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Jeffrey Machamer, Nathaniel McClennen, Mike Mignola, Jerry Moriarty, Françoise Mouly, Gary Panter, Joe Sacco, Seth, David Small, Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, Carol Tyler, Chris Ware, Karl Wirsum), eight illustrated transcripts from the May 2012 "Comics: Philosophy & Practice" conference at the University of Chicago, and a sampling of images from Henry Jackson Lewis (1837-1891), an artist who was born into slavery and has been called the first African-American cartoonist.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects; Comic books, strips, etc. -- Influence on mass media; Digital media