British Comics in the Early Twenty-first Century
- Submitting institution
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 229
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Twenty-first Century British Fiction
- Publisher
- Gylphi
- ISBN
- 9781780240213
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This book chapter summarises the condition of the British comics industry in the early 21st century, focusing on three key areas: the graphic novel, the periodical publication and the digital landscape. The chapter is written for a general audience and is the only section on comics in a publication on 21st-century literature as a broadly conceived field. The survey of the field is original in the way in which it brings together various types of publications under the three categories, and particularly in the identification of two types of digital comic (app-based and file-based). This distinction has fed into ongoing research for a forthcoming monograph on digital comics by Hague. Surprisingly, digital comics research remains relatively underdeveloped at this point, and this classification (along with other elements of the planned monograph) are likely to be helpful in developing the study of this innovative form.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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