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- ISBN 9780367196868
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Comics Studies. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in the field.
At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, the book’s entries provide an essential overview of the key concepts in the field of Comics Studies, as shaped by historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. The 22 concepts covered include:
• Adaptation
• Aesthetics
• Animals
• Architecture
• Autobiography
• Censorship
• Convergence
• Empire & Postcolonial
• Feminism
• History
• Indigeneity
• Intersectionality
• Language
• LGBTQ
• Memoir
• Mind/Bodies
• Race
• Regionalism
• Sacred
• Social Movements
• Speculative
• Youth
Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading and a glossary, Comics Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for students of media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, gender and women’s studies, and literature who are studying comics and graphic novels.
Frederick Luis Aldama holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin and is also founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab and the annual BIPOC PoP: Comics, Gaming & Animation Arts Expo & Symposium. He is an award-winning author, co-author, and editor of over 50 books, including The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture (2016), Comics Studies Here and Now (2018), and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comics Studies (2020). Aldama is also Editor-in-Chief of Latinx Pop Magazine and FlowerSong Press and edits ten academic and creative book series while curating the Latinographix and Brown Ink graphic novel series.