Cultures of Comics Work

Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding Comics Work

Chapter 2 For the Love of the Craft: Industry, Identity, and Australian Comics

Chapter 3 Between Art and the Underground: From Corporate to Collaborative Comics in India

Chapter 4 Making Comics as Artisans: Comic Book Production in Colombia

Chapter 5 Nuestro Futuro ¿Hombres Libres, O Esclavos? : Imagining US–Mexican Cooperation against the Axis Powers in a World War II Propaganda Comic

Chapter 6 Recognizing Comics as Brazilian National Popular Culture: CETPA and the Debates over Comics Professional Identities (1961–1964)

Chapter 7 From Turtles to Topatoco: A Brief History of Comic Book Production in the Pioneer Valley

Chapter 8 The Case of the Missing Author: Toward an Anatomy of Collaboration in Comics

Chapter 9 Drawing Fatherhood: The Working Father Figure in the Autobiographical Graphic Novels of Guy Delisle

Chapter 10 Under the Radar: John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comics and Self-Publishing as Cultural Work

Chapter 11 Bearing Witness and Telling It How It Is: Dialogue and Collaboration in the Creation of Dans les griffes de la vipère

Chapter 13 To the Studio! Comic Book Artists: The Next Generation and the Occupational Imaginary of Comics Work

Chapter 14 Gatekeeping in Comics Publishing: A Practical Guide to Gatekeeping Research

Chapter 15 Toward Maturity: Analyzing the Spanish Comics Industry Through a Comparison of National Graphic Novels and Gafotaku-Oriented Manga

Chapter 16 The Tail That Wags the Dog: The Impact of Distribution on the Development and Direction of the American Comic Book Industry

Chapter 17 Reconfiguring the Power Structure of the Comic Book Field: Crowdfunding and the Use of Social Networks

Chapter 18 “A Fumetto , a Comic, and a BD Walk into a Bar…”: The Translation of Humor in Comics

Chapter 19 Subcultural Clusters and Blurry Boundaries: Considering Art Worlds and Fields of Cultural Production through Localized Manga Production in Hungary