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Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity

David John Boyd | Julie Briand-Boyd
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Frank Quitely
Glasgow
global comics
Representations of Scottishness
Scottish comics

Product details

  • ISBN 9789462704664
  • Weight: 907g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 230mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Leuven University Press
  • Publication City/Country: BE
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The work of Frank Quitely and the role of comics art in contemporary Scottish culture, politics and society.

Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity explores the life and career of Glasgow-born, Eisner Award-winning, and internationally acclaimed Marvel, DC, and Image Comics artist Frank Quitely. With a prolific career spanning more than three decades, Quitely played a pivotal role in the British superhero renaissance of the 1990s and 2000s and in the explosive emergence of the Scottish new wave of comics, a movement that included peers like Alan Grant, Mark Millar, and Grant Morrison, but has been underrepresented in both comics studies and Scottish studies. This work investigates questions of historical and contemporary expressions of Scottishness in transcultural comics genres such as superhero, science fiction, and fantasy. Framed through the lens of comics and literary genres, as well as their British and American editors, Quitely’s approach to Scottishness is oblique and self-reflexive; his expressions of Scottishness are tensely bound to current nuanced examinations of Scottish national, literary and historical subjectivity. His work oscillates between two axiomatic antipodes: the regional, provincial, and local versus the transnational, cosmopolitan, and global.

This comprehensive study also features an in-depth interview with Quitely, as well as unearthed archives, sketchbooks, notes, and donated or personal artworks not available elsewhere.

This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/
About David John Boyd | Julie Briand-Boyd
David John Boyd is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Stirling Maxwell Centre of the University of Glasgow. Julie Briand-Boyd is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Stirling Maxwell Centre of the University of Glasgow.

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