The Narrative Functions of Photography in Comics. Editor. Spec. issue of Image [&] Narrative, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring 2015.

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The Narrative Functions of Photography in Comics is situated within the broad project of reaching a more comprehensive understanding of visual forms of storytelling and how they interact. Contributors to the volume address how different types of images in comics impact our understanding of visual storytelling practices. They adopt different theoretical frameworks to consider how the mixing of different types of images shapes the story told (content) as well as its telling (form) in specific comics, or across different comics genres.

The articles collected here result from a SSHRC-funded workshop that brought together top scholars in comics studies to discuss the interrelationship between cartoon images and other types of images and its impact on visual storytelling.

Table of Contents

Pedri, Nancy. “Thinking about Photography in Comics.” 1-13.

Cook, Roy. “Judging a Comic Book by its Cover: Marvel Comics, Photo-covers, and the Objectivity of Photography.” 14-27.

Hurlburt, Sarah. “Dessiner la modernité: L’épilogue ‘photographique’ de Magasin Général.” 28-41.

Amihay, Ofra. “Red Diapers, Pink Stories: Color Photography and Self-outing in Jewish Women’s Comics.” 42-64.

Ernst, Nina. “Authenticity in Graphic Memoirs: Two Nordic Examples.” 65-83.

Postema, Barbara. “Establishing Relations: Photography in Wordless Comics.” 84-95.