Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Nina Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.

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"Documentary Comics presents a vital young voice in Comics Studies that brings a welcomed and fresh interdisciplinary approach to the study of graphic narrative." - José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond "Documentary Comics presents a vital young voice in Comics Studies that brings a welcomed and fresh interdisciplinary approach to the study of graphic narrative." - José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

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Nina Mickwitz is Lecturer in Contextual Studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.

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Book Title: Documentary Comics
Book Subtitle: Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
Authors: Nina Mickwitz
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493323
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50116-5Published: 07 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55895-7Published: 09 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49332-3Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 187
Topics: Film History, Media Studies, Literature, general, Arts, Social Sciences, general, Cultural Studies

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