Includes bibliographical references and index.

German comics : form, content, and production / Matt Hambro -- Before they were "art" : (West) German proto-comics and comics : a brief and somewhat subjective survey / Eckhard Kuhn-Osius -- "Nothing but exclamation points?" : comics in the Bavarian academic high school / Jens Kussmann -- The Book of Revelation as graphic novel : reimagining the Bible in present-day Europe / Jan Alexander van Nahl -- Using graphic novels for content learning in the German-studies classroom : the Basel City Reportage Operation Läckerli / Julia Ludewig -- "Show and tell" : using graphic novels for teaching East German history in the novice and intermediate foreign-language German classroom / Antje Krueger -- Tension acrobatics in comic art : Line Hoven's Liebe schaut weg / Bernadette Raedler -- Perspectivity in graphic novels about war : Germany's Bundeswehr operation in Afghanistan / Joshua Kavaloski -- Cultural legitimacy and Nicolas Mahler's autobiographical comics / Vance Byrd -- The perfection of imperfection : Nicolas Mahler's Alte Meister / Brett Sterling -- Patterns of memory and self-confrontation in Gerald Hartwig's Chamäleon / Lynn Marie Kutch.

Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory gathers an international team of contributors from two continents whose innovative scholarship demonstrates a regard for comics and graphic novels as works of art in their own right. The contributions serve as models for further research that will continue to define the relationship between comics and other traditional 2high art3 forms, such as literature and the visual arts. Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies is the first English-language anthology that focuses exclusively on the graphic texts of German-speaking countries. In its breadth, this book functions as an important resource in a limited pool of critical works on German-language comics and graphic novels. The individual chapters differ significantly from one another in methodology, subject matter, and style. Taken together, however, they present a cross-section of comics and graphic novel scholarship being performed in North America and Europe today. Moreover, they help to secure a place for these works in a globalized culture of comics. This volume’s contributors have helped create a new critical language within which this rapidly expanding medium can be read and interpreted. -- From publisher's website.