World Comics

The Basics
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-138-08820-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: The Basics

Offering an accessible introduction to the world of comics, this book provides a critical overview of how the form and content of comic books from around the globe have evolved over time.

From Tokyo's manga cafés to Buenos Aires's kioscos, from Parisian ateliers to Lagos's digital studios, comics have become a truly planetary art form. Global Comics: The Basics is the first comprehensive guide to this vibrant world republic of sequential art, tracing how local traditions—Japanese manga, Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, Latin American historietas, African comics, and more—developed their distinctive visual grammars while increasingly cross-pollinating across borders. Frederick Luis Aldama illuminates how creators from Osamu Tezuka to Marjane Satrapi, from the Hernandez Brothers to Deena Mohamed, have wielded the unique power of words-and-pictures storytelling to witness history, challenge power, and reimagine identity. This book offers an important guide to the history of comics globally, situating comic book production, dissemination, and consumption within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts.

Essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about the history and cultural significance of comics on a global level and why they matter more than ever in our interconnected age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aldama, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Tracing a Planetary Republic of Comics

Chapter 1: The Grammar of Comics

Chapter 2: American Comics

Chapter 3: European Comics Traditions

Chapter 4: Japanese Manga

Chapter 5: Manga Beyond Japan

Chapter 6: Latin American Historietas

Chapter 7: African and Middle Eastern Comics

Chapter 8: Translation, Adaptation, and Cross-Cultural Flow

Chapter 9: Comics, Identity, and Social Justice

Chapter 10: Digital Comics and the Future

Coda: The Planetary Future of Comics

Timeline of Global Comics: Major Events and Publications

Further Reading

Glossary of Terms

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin. He is an award-winning author, co-author and editor of over 50 books, including the Eisner Award winning, Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (2017), Comics Studies Here and Now (2018), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comics Studies (2020), and Comics Studies: The Key Concepts (2026). He is editor and co-editor of 10 book series, including Latinographix and Brown Ink that publish graphic fiction and nonfiction. His contributions to literature, art, and education have earned him Obama White House honors as well as induction into both the Texas Institute of Letters and Ohio State University's Hall of Fame.