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The introduction offers an overview of recent scholarly discourse and approaches to comics and graphic novels. It provides brief close readings of panels from Rodolphe Töpffer’s L’Histoire d’Albert, the anonymous comic strip, Lucy and Sophie Say Good Bye, George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, and Emil Ferris’ My Favorite Thing is Monsters, which apply comics methodologies of reading language (Hannah Miodrag) and analyzing graphic novels (Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey), among others. To further highlight the scope of comics analyses across the variety of forms of the medium, the introduction discusses the comics in the light of Rita Felski’s concepts of knowledge and enchantment. The introduction ends with an overview of the Companion’s seventeen chapters, from the first part on Forms, to the second one on Readings, and ending with Uses.
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comics, comics theory, enchantment, knowledge, Rodolphe Töpffer, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Emil Ferris, Chris Ware, Rita Felski

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MLA
Ahmed, Maaheen. “Introduction : Bridging Gaps.” The Cambridge Companion to Comics, edited by Maaheen Ahmed, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 1–22, doi:10.1017/9781009255653.002.
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Ahmed, M. (2023). Introduction : bridging gaps. In M. Ahmed (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to comics (pp. 1–22). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255653.002
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Ahmed, Maaheen. 2023. “Introduction : Bridging Gaps.” In The Cambridge Companion to Comics, edited by Maaheen Ahmed, 1–22. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255653.002.
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Ahmed, Maaheen. 2023. “Introduction : Bridging Gaps.” In The Cambridge Companion to Comics, ed by. Maaheen Ahmed, 1–22. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009255653.002.
Vancouver
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Ahmed M. Introduction : bridging gaps. In: Ahmed M, editor. The Cambridge companion to comics. Cambridge University Press; 2023. p. 1–22.
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M. Ahmed, “Introduction : bridging gaps,” in The Cambridge companion to comics, M. Ahmed, Ed. Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 1–22.
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