Between Pen and Pixel Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future - Studies in Comics and Cartoons

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. 

ISBN:	9780814213643
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Imprint:	The Ohio State University Press
Published date:	14 Apr 2018
DEWEY:	741.59
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xi, 210
Weight:	492g
Height:	160mm
Width:	236mm
Spine width:	22mm

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