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Documentary Comics

Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age

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  1. Nina Mickwitz
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 1-11

  3. Nonfiction Comics and Documentary

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 13-28

  4. The Truth-Claims of Images

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 29-57

  5. History in the Making: Comics, History, and Collective Memory

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 59-89

  6. The Persistence of the Travelogue

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 91-114

  7. Visibility and Voice

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 115-141

  8. Short-Form Documentary Webcomics

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 143-157

  9. Conclusion

    • Nina Mickwitz
    Pages 159-160

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-187
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About this book

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

About the author

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

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