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Author Bukatman, Scott, 1957- author.

Title Hellboy's world : comics and monsters on the margins / Scott Bukatman
Edition First edition
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016

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Contents Introduction : Benjamin, reading, and the comics -- Enworlding Hellboy : cosmology and franchise -- Occult detection, sublime horror, and predestination -- Children's books, color, and other non-linear pleasures -- Hellboy and the codicological imagination -- Hellboy at the Gates of Hell : sculpture, stasis, and the comics page -- Coda-Mignola, Goya, and the monsters
Summary "Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy is also a highly aestheticized encounter with the medium of comics and the materiality of the book. Scott Bukatman's dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened 'adventure of reading' in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds for the reader's imagination to inhabit. In Mignola's work, the imaginative space that exists on the page and within the book becomes a self-aware meditation upon the imaginative space of page and book. To understand the mechanics of creating a world on the page, Bukatman draws upon other media--including children's books, sculpture, pulp fiction, cinema, graphic design, painting, and illuminated manuscripts. Hellboy's World delves into shared fictional universes and occult detection, the riotous colors of comics that elude rationality and control, horror and the evocation of the sublime, and the place of abstraction in Mignola's art to demonstrate the pleasurable and multiple complexities of the reader's experience. Monsters populate the world of Hellboy comics, but Hellboy's World argues that comics are themselves little monsters, unruly sites of sensory and cognitive pleasures that exist, happily, on the margins. The book is not only a treat for Hellboy fans but will entice anyone interested in the medium of comics and the art of reading"--Provided by publisher
Analysis abstraction
adaptation
animation
childrens books
cinema
comics
darkhorse comics
demon
detective
fictional universes
folklore
graphic design
graphic novels
hellboy
horror
illuminated manuscripts
imagination
literary criticism
materiality
media
monsters
mystery
nonfiction
occult
painting
pleasure of reading
popular culture
pulp fiction
reader
reading
religion
sculpture
serial narratives
sublime
supernatural
visual narratives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mignola, Mike -- Criticism and interpretation
Hellboy (Fictitious character from Mignola)
SUBJECT Mignola, Mike fast
Hellboy (Fictitious character from Mignola) fast
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Superheroes.
Comic books, strips, etc.
United States
Genre/Form Graphic novels
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Graphic novels.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520963108
0520963105