Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Description
Book chapter from Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, edited by Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis.
About the book:
Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels.
In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material-in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts-occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.
ISBN
9780826430267
Publication Date
10-21-2010
Publisher
Continuum (Bloomsbury)
City
New York, New York
Recommended Citation
Goodwin, Megan. "Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles." Graven images : religion in comic books and graphic novels, edited by A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer, Continuum, 2010, pp. 258-73.
