EcoComix

<p> Exploring image and imagination in conjunction with natural environments the animal and the human this collection of essays turns the ecocritical and ecocompositional gaze upon comic studies. The comic form has a long tradition of representing environmental rhetoric. Through discussions of comics including <I>A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge We3 Concrete</I> and <I>Black Orchid</I> these essays bring the rich work of ecological criticism into dialogue with the multi-faceted landscape of comics graphic novels web-comics cartoons and animation. The contributors ask not only how nature and environment are portrayed in these texts but also how these textual forms inform how we come to know nature and environment--or what we understand those terms to represent. Interdisciplinary in approach this collection welcomes diverse approaches that integrate not only ecocriticism and comics studies but animal studies posthumanism ecofeminism queer ecology semiotics visual rhetoric and communication ecoseeing image-text studies space and spatial theories writing studies media ecology ecomedia and other methodological approaches.</p>