Hybrid forms of graphic literature
So many varieties of options
I’m so proud to have co-edited, with
(who provided the picture below), The Field Guide to Graphic LiteratureKelcey says, “I wanted a book for myself, one where I could go deeper, learning more about the possibilities of creating comics and graphic narratives … I wanted a book where comics and visual poetry and literary collage and mixed-media narratives and erasures and altered archival documents and graphic memoirs and novels were all between the same covers.”
This is the book!
Early reviews
Publishers Weekly: “a dazzling showcase of short academic essays designed to get artists and educators jazzed about the “hybrid form” of comics.”
Booklist: Starred Review! ⭐️
NewPages: “To say my mind was blown when I first thumbed through this collection would be an understatement.”
Autobiographix: “[T]his book isn’t like other “how to’s” or comic guides you may have experienced before–it is a work that truly champions and explores the possibilities of comics when they are paired with other genres and movements, like poetry, surrealism, eco-writing, schematics, taxonomies, and more.”
Also, I hate to brag, but our contributors made the BEST PLAYLIST for the book at Largehearted Boy!
A few images:
(left, Bianca Stone)
Where to find it
(left, Oliver Baez Bendorf)
Upcoming Events
FRIDAY, July 28 - Gainesville, Florida
Book Release Party for The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature at the Sequential Artists Workshop at 6:00 pm, featuring co-editor Tom Hart. Free and open to the public with books for sale by Third House Books.
The Sequential Artists Workshop
1314 S. Main Street, #2
Gainesville, Florida
WEDNESDAY, August 2 - Virtual Event
A virtual panel conversation with editors and contributors to The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature at 7:30 pm EDT on Zoom. Hosted by SAW and with book sales by Third House Books, this round-table event features co-editors Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart and contributors Arwen Donahue, Lauren Haldeman, Zeke Peña, Lawrence Sutin, Naoko Fujimoto, Josh Neufeld, Marnie Galloway, Sharon Lee De La Cruz, and Nick Potter. Free and open to the public.
Register for this Zoom event here.
THURSDAY, August 17 - Evanston, IL
The Chicagoland Book Release Party for The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature at Bookends and Beginnings at 6:00 pm, featuring co-editor Kelcey Ervick and contributors Naoko Fujimoto, Scott Roberts, Marnie Galloway, and Lauren Haldeman. Free and open to the public.
Bookends and Beginnings
1620 Orrington Ave.
Evanston, Illinois
Thanks!
-TOM HART