{"product_id":"on-comics-and-grief-9781771126052","title":"On Comics and Grief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFragmented and hybrid in style, \u003ci\u003eOn Comics and Grief\u003c\/i\u003e examines a year in comic book publishing and the author's grief surrounding his mother's death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of 1976.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructured around a year of comic books with a cover date of 1976, the year the author turned ten, the book is divided into an Introduction plus twelve sections, each a month of the publishing year. Two comic books are highlighted each month and examined through the interwoven lenses of creative nonfiction and comics studies. Through these twenty-four comics, the book addresses the major comic book publishers and virtually all genres of comics published in 1976. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy pushing the ways in which the personal is used in comics studies, combining different modes of writing, and embracing a fragmentary style, the book explores what is possible in academic writing in general and comics studies in particular. \u003ci\u003eOn Comics and Grief\u003c\/i\u003e both acts as a way for the author to process his grief and uses grief as a way to think about the comics themselves through the emotions and personal connections that underlie the work we do as scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDale Jacobs is the author of Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy (2013) and the co-author (with Heidi LM Jacobs) of 100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One Summer (2021). His essays on comics have appeared in journals such as Inks, English Journal, CCC, Biography, and Studies in Comics. He lives in Windsor, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50499406168338,"sku":"9781771126052","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2eba903f-c701-4f37-ac28-88a18ff37ada.jpg?v=1730744009","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-comics-and-grief-9781771126052","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}