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Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations, and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.

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Nancy Pedri's wonderful A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides useful references in a variety of texts for key concepts in comics studies that allows for ready comparison.--Ian Gordon, coeditor of The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life

There has been an undeniable rise in the popularity of graphic novels and superhero movies for a few decades. This increase in awareness has seen a surge in academic studies of, and pedagogical books devoted to, comics. Pedri found a gap in the related literature--a dearth of reference resources dedicated to terms commonly utilized in the study of comic books and its culture. . . . This reference is useful and recommended for most libraries so that they can support the growing interest in comic books within many user groups.--Gary Medina Library Journal Nancy Pedri's wonderful A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides useful references in a variety of texts for key concepts in comics studies that allows for ready comparison.--Ian Gordon, coeditor of The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life

"There has been an undeniable rise in the popularity of graphic novels and superhero movies for a few decades. This increase in awareness has seen a surge in academic studies of, and pedagogical books devoted to, comics. Pedri found a gap in the related literature--a dearth of reference resources dedicated to terms commonly utilized in the study of comic books and its culture. . . . This reference is useful and recommended for most libraries so that they can support the growing interest in comic books within many user groups.--Gary Medina ""Library Journal"" Nancy Pedri's wonderful A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides useful references in a variety of texts for key concepts in comics studies that allows for ready comparison.--Ian Gordon, coeditor of The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life"

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"Nancy Pedri is professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), where she has taught since 2006. She edited ""Mixing Visual Media in Comics"" for ImageText and ""The Narrative Functions of Photography in Comics"" for Image [&] Narrative; she coedited ""Sexuality and Mental Illness in Comics"" for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Her coauthored article on ""Focalization in Graphic Narrative"" won the 2012 James Phelan Award for the Best Essay in Narrative. Chuck Howitt is a proofreader, assistant editor, and illustrator with a certificate in comics studies from Portland State University."

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