Comics And Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion And Graphic Narratives - 9781496819475

Seeing the sacred in comics -- Writing the sacred in Craig Thompson's Habibi -- God's comics: the Hebrew alphabet as graphic narrative -- The ineffability of form: speaking and seeing the sacred in Tina's Mouth and the Rabbi's Cat -- The seven traits of fictoscripture and the wormhole sacred -- Reimagining sacred texts through comics -- Many comic book Ramayanas: idealizing and opposing Rama as the righteous God-king -- The ending of mark as a page-turn reveal -- Slaying a biblical archetype: 1 Samuel, Gauld's Goliath, and the new midrash -- Transrendering biblical bodies: reading sex in the action bible and genesis illustrated -- Transfigured comic selves, monsters, and the body -- The dark phoenix as "promising monster": an interdisciplinary approach to teaching Marvel's X-men: the dark phoenix saga -- "Honor the power within": Daoist wizards, popular culture, and contemporary Japan's spiritual crisis -- Joe Kubert's Yossel: April 19, 1943: faith and art history's precedents -- The everyday sacred in comics -- Urban revelation in Paul Madonna's postsecular comics -- The common place: the poetics of the pedestrian in Kevin Huizenga's walkin' -- Marvel's fallen son and making the ordinary sacred -- Will Eisner: master of graphic wisdom

• | Author: Assaf Gamzou|Ken Koltun-Fromm, Assaf Gamzou
• | Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• | Publication Date: Sep 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 322 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1496819470
• | ISBN-13: 9781496819475