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Between Pen and Pixel
2018
Overview
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best
Academic/Scholarly Work In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics,
Materiality, and the Book of the Future , Aaron Kashtan argues
that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of
the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to focus on
text-based literature, particularly fiction. However, because
comics make the effects of materiality visible, they offer a
clearer demonstration than prose fiction of how the rise of digital
reading platforms transforms the reading experience. Comics help us
see the effects of alterations in features such as publication
design and typography, whereas in print literature, such
transformations often go unnoticed. With case studies of the work
of Alison Bechdel, Matt Kindt, Lynda Barry, Carla Speed McNeil,
Chris Ware, and Randall Munroe, Kashtan examines print comics that
critique digital technology, comics that are remediated from print
to digital and vice versa, and comics that combine print and
digital functionality. Kashtan argues that comics are adapting to
the rise of digital reading technologies more effectively than
print literature has yet done. Therefore, looking at comics gives
us a preview of what the future of the book looks like. Ultimately,
Between Pen and Pixel argues that as print literature
becomes more sensitive to issues of materiality and mediacy, print
books will increasingly start to resemble to comic books.
Publisher
Ohio State University Press,The Ohio State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780814213643, 0814213642, 9780814254707, 0814254705
