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Libro teórico colectivo, coordinado por Julio Cañero y Esther Claudio, que recoge algunas de las ponencias presentadas en la First International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, celebrada en la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares durante el mes de noviembre de 2011.

Volcado del sumario:

Introduction

• The Conference -- Julio Cañero
• About this Collection -- Esther Claudio

Part 1: What is a Comic? Origins and Definitions

• Orígenes, definiciones y controversias: El debate teórico sobre el nacimiento del cómic -- Jordi Canyissá
• The Origins of Graphic Narrative in Popular Culture -- Roberto Bartual Moreno
• Luis Mariani and the First Comic Strips in Spain -- Manuel Barrero
• The Order of Comics: Dynamics of the Ninth’s Art Devices -- Breixo Harguindey
• Do you Read a Comic? -- Nicholas A. Theisen

Part 2: Formal Tools of Comics

• The Drama of Caricature: Simplification and Deformation as Avant-garde Rhetorical Devices -- Daniel Gómez Salamanca and Josep Rom Rodríguez
• La(s) aventura(s) de la forma: La heterogeneidad gráfica como vía de experimentación en el cómic -- Álvaro Nofuentes
• Dream and History, the Cartoon Mirror: The Incorporation of History into the Comic Book -- Iván Pintor
• The Convergence of Graphic-Narrative Discourses: The Picture Book and the Graphic Novel -- José Manuel Trabado
• Border Dwellers in Boys’ Love Manga -- Mark McHarry
• Valentine, Comics for Mobile Devices, and the Limits of Empowerment -- Joe Sutliff-Sanders

Part 3: Authors and their Works

• The Many Facets of Boredom in the Work of Daniel Clowes -- Greice Schneider
• The Confrontation between the Classic and the Modern Gothic in The Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Alan Moore -- Francisco Sáez de Adana
• La memoria como narración en la obra de Seth -- Irene Costa Mendia
• The (Re)construction of Memory in Antonio Altarriba’s El Arte de Volar -- Diego Espiña Barros
• Sequencing the History of the Third Reich: Art Spiegelman’s Selection of Holocaust Images and Moments -- María Jesús Fernández Gil
• The “Ontological Indeterminacy” in Comics: El Resentido by Juaco Vizuete -- Mihai Iacob
• Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s The Dark Knight Strikes Again: DK2 or How to Make the Revolution within the Palace -- Juan Carlos Pérez
• Andrea Pazienza and Lorenzo Mattotti: How the Student Riots of 1977 Shaped Italian Comics -- Barbara Uhlig

Contributors