{"product_id":"hellboys-world-scott-bukatman-9780520288041","title":"Hellboy's World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins","description":"Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. \u003ci\u003eHellboy's World\u003c\/i\u003e shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman's dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened \"adventure of reading\" in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds for the reader's imagination to inhabit. Drawing upon other media--including children's books, sculpture, pulp fiction, cinema, graphic design, painting, and illuminated manuscripts--Bukatman reveals the mechanics of creating a world on the page. He also demonstrates the pleasurable and multiple complexities of the reader's experience, invoking the riotous colors of comics that elude rationality and control and delving into shared fictional universes and occult detection, the horror genre and the evocation of the sublime, and the place of abstraction in Mignola's art. Monsters populate the world of \u003ci\u003eHellboy \u003c\/i\u003ecomics, but Bukatman argues that comics are themselves little monsters, unruly sites of sensory and cognitive pleasures that exist, happily, on the margins. The book is not only a treat for \u003ci\u003eHellboy \u003c\/i\u003efans, but it will entice anyone interested in the medium of comics and the art of reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott Bukatman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520288041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520288041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Scott Bukatman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919954739455,"sku":"9780520288041","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5a2c5851-b589-48f6-b268-4b2d54ad90ab.jpg?v=1680812834","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hellboys-world-scott-bukatman-9780520288041","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}