Composition Studies 43.1

by Laura R. Micciche (Editor), Dale Jacobs (Editor)

CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 43.1 (Spring 2015) From the Editor Special Comics, Multimodality, and Composition, Dale Jacobs, Guest Editor Composing A Comic Strip Cover Story by Gary Weissman Composing the Uncollectible by Franny Howes The Rhetoric of the Paneled Comics and Composition Pedagogy by Gabriel Sealey-Morris Beyond Talking Sourced Comics and the Affordances of Multimodality by Hannah Dickinson and Maggie M. Werner Illustrating Comic Composition, Narrative Rhetoric, and Critical Multiliteracies by Kathryn Comer The Work of Comics Considerations of Multimodal Composition for Writing Scholarship and Pedagogy by Molly J. Scanlon COURSE English 177: Literature and Popular Culture, The Graphic Novel by Leah Misemer ENGL 1102: Literature and Handwriting and Typography by Aaron Kashtan WHERE WE The Underdog Comics Studies and Composition and Rhetoric1 by Susan Kirtley Graphic Comics, Disability and De-Canonizing Composition by Shannon Walters Comics and Sketching the Possibilities by Erin Kathleen Bahl, Ohio State University BOOK Comics and Composition, Comics as Navigating Production and Consumption Reviewed by Tammie M. Kennedy and Jessi Thomsen and Erica Review of Contemporary Comics Storytelling, by Karin Kukkonen; Linguistics and the Study of Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett; Narrative Structure in Making Sense of Fragments, by Barbara Postema Multimodal Literacies and Graphic Using Alison Bechdel in the Classroom, Reviewed by Janine Morris, Review of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, by Alison Bechdel; Fun A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel Re/Framing Identifications, edited by Michelle Ballif, Reviewed by Peter Brooks Understanding A Graphic Guide to Writing, by Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, and Zander Cannon, Reviewed by Molly J. Scanlon DIY Critical Making and Social Media, edited by Matt Ratto and Megan Boler, Reviewed by Jason Luther Contributors

216 pages, Paperback

Published May 3, 2015