The volume takes an interdisciplinary look at Manouach's work, situating it within the broader avant-garde. An international team of contributors engages with the practice from a range of theoretical positions: traditional narratology and aesthetic close readings of individual books; comics' own histories of production, circulation, and reception; disability studies; post-colonial studies; technological criticism; media ecology; ontography; posthumanist philosophy; and questions of materiality and media specificity. The volume addresses readers in comics studies, media studies, media ecology, literature, cultural studies, and visual studies, and was the result of an Echo Chamber open call (now archived).

Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
Edited By Pedro Moura
Copyright 2024

Index

Foreword

Kenneth Goldsmith

01

Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics

Pedro Moura

02

Katz, Noirs & Tintin akei Kongo:
Ilan Manouach’s Critical Manifesto

Xavier Guilbert

03

Ilan Manouach’s Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge:

Ontography and the Past and Future of Stories

Simon Grennan

04

Whitewashing the Smudge: The Politics of Erasure
and Unreadability in Ilan Manouach’s Cascao

Ana Matilde Sousa

05

The Void that Challenged Narrative:
A Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier

Greice Schneider

06

Replacing and Reorganizing:
A Discursive Arc about Cultural Production

Lorenz Ohrmer

07

Reading Childly: Riki Fermier and Cascao

Maaheen Ahmed

08

Disability, Comics and the Shapereader

José Alaniz

09

Shapereader and the Limits of Touch

Ian Hague

10

Blanco: On Blank and Illegible Books

Moritz Kung

11

Manouach Contrabandier: Countering Practices
to Industrial Publishing

Morvandiau

12

Haunted by Tradition:
Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past

Barbara Postema

13

[CoCo]: Conceptual Comics and Online Archives

Benoît Crucifix

14

Can Comics Think? Automation on The Cubicle Island

Daniel Worden

15

Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker

Maria Clara da S. R. Carneiro & Lielson Zeni

16

Afterword: Like a Robot Bereft of Its Function

Xavier Löwenthal

17