RIT Press has added new titles to its two signature monograph series on comics studies and the Arts and Crafts movement.
Romanticism in Comics: Faith, Myth, and Mood, by Nick Katsiadas, examines genre-bending works from the modern age of comics, focusing on Neil Gaimen’s Sandman, Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ The Unwritten, and Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III’s Promethea. These comics from the 1980s and 1990s fuse dark-fantasy fiction, historically based characters, and the authors’ presence within the storytelling. He looks to 18th century Romanticism to explore imaginary realms, mythology, and paranoia.
Katsiadas supports an inclusive approach to comics studies and comprehensive scholarship that refrains from elevating one genre over another.
“It is important to the field of comics studies that we reveal intersections between nonfiction and mainstream fiction…
