Discussing the Themes and Formats in the Book On Comics and Grief
Sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Recorded on 04/10/2024
Posted in The Authority File
Episode 373
In the second episode of this four-part series, Dale Jacobs, author of On Comics and Grief, dives deeper into the structure and making of his title, a creative nonfiction work that blends memories of his late mother with analysis of comics published in 1976. First, he explains his thought process behind selecting a wide variety of publishers and comics to research, extending beyond the superhero genre to include war, romance, fantasy, kids, and teen comics. Further, he highlights the business and marketing strategies comic book publishers employed in 1976 that reflect the changing demand and publishing landscape. Finally, he chats about the March and September chapters in the book, the latter’s unique format allowing him to contemplate the common practice in academia of turning conference papers into research papers.
About the guest:
Dr. Dale Jacobs
Professor, English
University of Windsor
Dale Jacobs is the author of Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy (2013) and the co-author (with Heidi LM Jacobs) of 100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One Summer (2021). His essays on comics have appeared in journals such as Inks, English Journal, CCC, Biography, and Studies in Comics. He lives in Windsor, Ontario.
Enjoy the conversation? Listen to the rest of the series:
- Outlining the “Big, Big Tent” of Comics Studies
- Connecting Personal Experience with Scholarship
- The Epilogue, Cats, and the Future of Comics Studies
Check out our previous series with Wilfrid Laurier University Press:
– The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
– Creative Disruption in Scholarship
– Performing Female Blackness
– Canadian Poetry Today
– Animal Studies, Postcolonial Literature, and Multispecies Modernity
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