Comics of the Anthropocene

Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature

José Alaniz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

334 Seiten

2025
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-5774-3 (ISBN)

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Since the first Earth Day in 1970, how have US comics artists depicted the human-caused destruction of the natural world? How do these representations manifest in different genres of comics like superheroes, biography, underground comix, and journalism? What resources unique to the comics medium do they bring to their tasks? How do these works resonate with the ethical and environmental issues raised by global conversations about the anthropogenic sixth mass extinction and climate change? How have comics mourned the loss of nature over the last five decades? Are comics "ecological objects," in philosopher Timothy Morton’s parlance?

Weaving together insights from comics studies, environmental humanities, critical animal studies, and affect studies to answer these questions, Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature explores the representation of animals, pollution, mass extinctions, and climate change in the Anthropocene Era, our current geological age of human-induced environmental transformation around the globe.

Artists and works examined in Comics of the Anthropocene include R. Crumb, McGregor et al.’s Black Panther, Jack Kirby’s Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, the comics of the Pacific Northwest and Murphy/Zulli’s landmark alternative series The Puma Blues. This book breaks new ground in confronting our most daunting modern crisis through a discussion of how graphic narrative has uniquely addressed the ecology issue.

José Alaniz is professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington–Seattle. He is author of Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia; Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond; and Komiks: Comic Art in Russia, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "We Are the Asteroid": Comics and the "End of Nature"

Part I
1. Art, Affect, and the Anthropocene
2. Nature, Comics, and the Mega-Image
3. Comics as Ecological Objects

Part II
4. How Many Trees Had to Be Cut Down for This Chapter? R. Crumb as Ironic Eco-Elegist
5. "Winner Take All!": Children, Animals, and Mourning in Kirby’s Kamandi
6. Wakanda Speaks: Animals and Animacy in "Panther’s Rage"
7. "Death Drive" to Los Alamos: Puma Blues as Eco-Male-ancholia

Conclusion: The Pacific Northwest in Words and Pictures
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	61 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Jackson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4968-5774-7 / 1496857747
ISBN-13	978-1-4968-5774-3 / 9781496857743
Zustand	Neuware