The essays in Comics and Intermediality move beyond the word/image differential to explore other relations that are no less vital to comics, such as the relation between page-array (spatial organization) and sequence-array (temporal organization); between frame (geometrical) and panel (visual-representational); between the drawing of an object (icon) and the drawing of a movement (gesture or figure); and between the mode of interface associated with painting or cinema (spectatorship) and with literature (literacy). It brings together essays from leading international cutting-edge comics and media scholars to address:

1. How do comics challenge our received notions of art and media?
2. What expressive, intellectual, and sensorial potentialities do comics possess (both in themselves, and in relation to other media)?
3. What new forms of critical thought can be developed out of comics’ unique intermedial configurations?

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