Hellboy's world : comics and monsters on the margins /

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. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy is also a highly aestheticized encounter with the medium of comics...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bukatman, Scott, 1957- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Mignola, Michael > Criticism and interpretation. Hellboy > (Fictitious character from Mignola) Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Benjamin, reading, and the comics
Enworlding Hellboy : cosmology and franchise
Occult detection, sublime horror, and predestination
Children's books, color, and other non-linear pleasures
Hellboy and the codicological imagination
Hellboy at the Gates of Hell : sculpture, stasis, and the comics page
Coda-Mignola, Goya, and the monsters.