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March 22, 2026Digital humanities quarterly0 citationsOpen Access

Materiality Comics

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AKAaron Jacob Kashtan

Key Points

  • To highlight the significance of materiality for comics scholars through visual storytelling.
  • Created a digital comic using Bitstrips and Comic Life.
  • Combined visual elements with critical essays on materiality.
  • Engaged comics scholars to explore insights unavailable through traditional analysis.
  • Demonstrated that comics can effectively convey complex materiality concepts.
  • Showed increased engagement from scholars through visual representation.
  • Highlighted gaps in literature concerning the material aspects of comics.

Abstract

Materiality Comics is a digital comic produced with a combination of Bitstrips and Comic Life. It argues and visually demonstrates that materiality is an important topic for comics scholars to consider, and that through creating essays in comics form, comics scholars can develop insights about materiality that are unavailable when analyzing comics by others.

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Aaron Jacob Kashtan (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69bf3955c7b3c90b18b43fa2https://doi.org/10.63744/kn4rdcuhw8yb
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