Comics Beyond Text and Image: On the Substance of Visual Narration

This book proposes thinking about comics as bodies, and it looks at their substance and the many movements and expressions they make, first and foremost in terms of corporeality. The central metaphor of the comics body is used to open up new ways of understanding what comics do on the page.

Benjamin Fraser starts from the view that narrative in comics is corporeal, carried through the visual bodies into which a page can be divided for analysis. The book suits scholars of comics and visual narrative, students of media and literary studies, and readers who want a theoretical account of how comics work.

Published by Routledge. ISBN-13: 9781032982663.