The Case of the Missing Author: Toward an Anatomy of Collaboration in Comics

Peanuts minus Schulz: Distributed Labor as a Compositional Practice

“…Comics, therefore, are by default a multimodal text construction, that does not fit the narrow auteurist vision of humanities and literary scholarship (Brienza 2013). Their distributed labor, under these criteria, makes the valorization of work highly problematic (Gray & Wilkins 2016). Comics production is riddled with the formal subjectivities and the conflicting personal A variety of appropriation practices has structured the winning space.…”