Comics, comics studies, and political science
In: International political science review: the journal of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) = Revue internationale de science politique, Band 38, Heft 5, S. 690-700
ISSN: 1460-373X
Many readers look to comics and cartoons for entertainment, but they can also inform, as well as inspire, controversy and even acts of political violence, as the Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo cases demonstrate. Indeed, politics and comics connect and overlap in all sorts of ways. This review essay explores the nexus of politics and comics at a time when a growing number of cartoonists are creating extended works of graphic nonfiction that address serious political and historical themes.