Graven images : religion in comic books and graphic novels /

Graven images : religion in comic books and graphic novels / [print] edited by A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer. - New York : Continuum, (c)2010. - xii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Looking for God in the gutter Devil's reading: revenge and revelation in American comics London (and the mind) as sacred-desecrated place in Alan Moore's From hell Drawing contracts: Will Eisner's legacy Catholic American citizenship: prescriptions for children from Treasure chest of fun and fact (1946-63) Gold plates, inked pages: the authority of the graphic novel Comics and religion: theoretical connections Killing the graven God: visual representations of the divine in comics Echoes of eternity: Hindu reincarnation motifs in superhero comic books Christianizing of animism in manga and anime: American translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind On Preacher (or, The death of God in pictures) Superman graveside: superhero salvation beyond Jesus apocalypse of adolescence": use of the Bildungsroman and superheroic tropes in Mark Millar and Peter Gross's Chosen From God nose to God's bosom, or How God (and Jack Jackson) began underground comics Hesitant embace: comic books and evangelicals Narrative and pictorial dualism in Persepolis and the emergence of complexity Machina ex deus: perennialism in comics Conversion to narrative: magic as religious language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles magic circus of the mind": Alan Moore's Promethea and the transformation of consciousness through comics Religion and Artesia/Religion in Artesia Present gods, absent believers in Sandman Tell-tale visions: the erotic theology of Craig Thompson's Blankets Douglas Rushkoff -- Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis -- Aaron Ricker Parks -- Emily Taylor Merriman -- Laurence Roth -- Anne Blankenship -- G. St. John Stott -- Darby Orcutt -- Andrew Tripp -- Saurav Mohapatra -- Eriko Ogihara-Schuck -- Mike Grimshaw -- A. David Lewis -- Julia Round -- Clay Kinchen Smith -- Kate Netzler -- Kerr Houston -- G. Willow Wilson -- Megan Goodwin -- Christine Hoff Kraemer and J. Lawton Winslade -- Mark Smylie -- Emily Ronald -- Steve Jungkeit.



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Comic books, strips, etc.--Religious aspects.

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