Comic Art, Children's Literature, and the New Comic Studies

Abstract

Children's Literature studies has traditionally treated comics fitfully and superficially despite the importance of comics as a global phenomenon associated with children. Conversely, the growing field of Comics Studies has largely neglected the child reader and childhood. Yet, children's culture scholars have recently begun to embrace comics while Anglophone educators and publishers have become newly conscious of children as comics readers. Hatfield suggests that Childhood Studies and Comics Studies have a new opportunity and need to acknowledge each other. He provides Children's Literature scholars an overview of Comics Studies by summarizing and contextualizing publishing trends, conferences, and theory.

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“…Comics in the Philippines remains an understudied area. Such a state of affairs may be attributed to various factors: the limelight being on the Japanese manga (Cohn, 2010; Hayley, 2010; Schwartz and Rubinstein-Ávila, 2006), comics studies being a relatively less developed subject area (Groensteen, 2009; Hatfield, 2006), or the fact that comics characters by the companies Marvel and DC in the United States reign in terms of global attention (Gerde and Foster, 2008; Pepper, 2015). In fact, the impression for some is that Filipinos involved in the comics industry are merely foreign workers who illustrate for Marvel and DC (MacDonald and Yeh, 2015).…”

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