Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives

by Francesco-Alessio Ursini (Editor), Adnan Mahmutovic (Editor), Frank Bramlett (Editor)

Overview

Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present.

This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic traditions--manga, bande desinees--from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The picture that emerges documents the elaborate storylines and complex universes comics creators have been crafting for decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476629360
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	09/11/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Francesco-Alessio Ursini is a linguist working on semantic and typology topics and a comics scholar working on cross-cultural aspects of narratives in comics. He lives in Sweden. Adnan Mahmutović is a lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University. Frank Bramlett is a professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He researches the linguistic nature of comics and serves on the editorial board of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini is a linguist working on semantic and typology topics and a comics scholar working on cross-cultural aspects of narratives in comics. He lives in Sweden.
Adnan Mahmutovic is a lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University.
Frank Bramlett is a professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He researches the linguistic nature of comics and serves on the editorial board of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutović and Frank Bramlett
Part 1: ­Future-Formal
Narrative, Time Travel and Richard McGuire’s “Here” (Roy T Cook)
One Soul, From Hell and Here: The Graphic Novel Page
as Time Machine (Alex Fitch)
English Apocalypses and Robot Skateboards: Warren Ellis’
Futures (Keith Scott)
Where Is the Future? An Analysis of Places and Location
Processes in Comics (Francesco-Alessio Ursini)
Hallucinations of Present Future: Futuristic Patterns Through
Images in Japanimation Works (Maxime ­Boyer-Degoul)
Part 2: ­Future-Past and ­Future-Present
The Future Is (Ancient) History: Judge Dredd and the Futuristic Legacy of the Classical World (Isak Hammar)
The Haunted Futures of Gothic Comics (Fred Francis)
Dystopian Chaos, Dystopian Order: Differing Ideological
Reinterpretations of the Masked Vigilante in Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Moore and Lloyd’s V for Vendetta (Joakim Jahlmar)
Tragicomic Books: Reading Watchmen and Kingdom Come
as Pop Apocalyptic (Aaron Gaius Ricker )152
Maxime Miranda in Minimis: The Anthropocene in Nausicaä
of the Valley of the Wind (Adnan Mahmutović and Denise Ask Nunes)
Part 3: ­Future-Culture
The End Is Ahora: Images of the Future in the Mexican Comics
La blanda patria and 1874 (Gabriela Mercado Narváez)
The Future in Swedish ­Avant-Garde Comics, 2006–2014 (Margareta Wallin Wictorin and Anna Nordenstam)
Where Comics and Movies Converge: Days of Future Present (Ana Cabral Martins)
About the Contributors
Index