Comics Beyond Text and Image

On the Substance of Visual Narration

By: Benjamin Fraser

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Hardcover | 8 August 2025 | Edition Number 1

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220 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.42

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Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualises comics as 'bodies', exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality.

The book centres the metaphor of the comics body as a way of opening up our understandings of what comics do. It begins from the position that narrative in comics is corporeal, expressed in and through the visual bodies into which the page can be divided analytically, and from the interaction of the human body with the comics body. Drawing on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, the author argues for the primary role of visual narration over textual narration, develops a theory of the comics text as a cohesive and variegated cartography, and shows how thought is expressed in the extensive space of the comics page. This theory is then applied in snapshots of individual comics works that each in their own way continue the philosophical discussions of embodiment.

This book moves beyond traditional modes of narration or narrative, and will appeal to students and scholars of comics studies, as well as to those thinking about visual narrative more broadly, and to scholars of Spinoza and Deleuze.

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