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Author Bukatman, Scott, 1957- author.

Title Hellboy's world : comics and monsters on the margins / Scott Bukatman.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Language English.
Subject Mignola, Mike -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hellboy (Fictitious character from Mignola)
Mignola, Mike. (OCoLC)fst00266773
Hellboy (Fictitious character from Mignola) (OCoLC)fst00954752
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism.
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Superheroes.
Comic books, strips, etc. (OCoLC)fst00869145
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Bukatman, Scott, 1957- Hellboy's world. First edition 9780520288034 (DLC) 2015032474 (OCoLC)915500449
ISBN 9780520963108 (electronic book)
0520963105 (electronic book)
Standard No. 40025856749
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