Tag: comics

Multimodal Comics

Madeline Gangnes

Madeline’s co-edited (with Drs. Chris Murray and Julia Round) collection, Multimodal Comics: The Evolution of Comics Studies (Intellect, 2024) has just been published in the United Kingdom and is being distributed by the University of Chicago Press. The collection showcases a selection of essays from ten years of Studies in Comics (journal) archives alongside several new pieces on the subject of multimodality in comics. It explores interactions between comics and other media and technologies, employing a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives. By focusing on key critical concepts within multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analog, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), this collection expands and develops existing comics theory and addresses multiple other media and disciplines. This volume demonstrates the evolution of comics studies over the last decade and shows how this research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a continuously evolving, multimodal artistic and production environment.

Drawn to Reconcile

Madeline Gangnes

“Drawn to Reconcile: The Queer Reparative Journey of ElfQuest” appears in the Summer 2020 issue of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. In this article. Madeline and her co-author propose that the independent comics series ElfQuest can be read as an attempt to make sense of the seeming contradictions between theories of queerness and between the identities claimed by individuals.

Madeline at MLA 2020 (Two Panels)

Madeline Gangnes

2020 Modern Language Association Convention

Washington State Convention Center
and Sheraton Grand Seattle (Seattle, WA)
January 9-12, 2020

Madeline will present two papers at the 2020 Modern Language Association Convention. The first, “Comics ARchitected: Translation Augmentation with Structural Integrity,” is part of the “Comics and the Digital Humanities” roundtable. Through her digital humanities project called “Comics ARchitected,” this paper demonstrates that when augmenting comics, it is vital to consider their structural integrity and avoid disrupting the fragile architecture of the comics page.

Her second paper, “Making Victorian Serialized Fiction Accessible through the Digital ‘Edition’,” is part of the “Serial Compositions” session. With an emphasis on access and accessibility, this paper explores ways in which Victorian serialized novels can be presented through digital projects that place them within their periodical contexts. One such project is Madeline’s The (De)collected War of the Worlds.