Elizabeth Allyn Woock

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• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Palacký University Olomouc

EN. This research comic explores the “authenticity strategy” of comics journalists’ embodiment as a character within their own reporting and the often co-occurring authenticity strategy of visual realism to emphasize the “truthiness” of the journalist’s account. Examining the journalistic comics of Joe Sacco, George Butler, and Olivier Kugler, amon...

As academic comics become more common in journals and more researchers are sharing methodologies for the production of academic comics, the appearance of the researcher's avatar in the illustrated article has become an accepted part of the practice. These comics show the researcher as an author, an illustrator, and even a narrative character in a g...

This chapter places the aesthetics of space within current conversations in comics studies and introduces methodologies from literary studies and aesthetics to complement the existing approaches. Developing a more complex theoretical foundation for analyzing space in comics, and specifically medievalist or historicized space in comics, this chapter...

Canonic texts in comics and canonic simulacra include Disney castles, Camelot, and comic book adaptations of key texts such as Beowulf, or popular series which synthesize medievalisms, such as the Prince Valiant storyworld. It has been well established by medievalists who study popular culture and media, such as medievalist Richard Utz, that of wha...

This chapter presents and defends my original conceptual framework for ‘projected archeology’ in medievalist comics. While archeology aims to discover the past, this chapter argues that the concept of a Dark Ages can be predicted in the future, but this Dark Ages carries with it the ruins and ideologies seen in the chapter Eulogized Space and is st...

This chapter shifts to the illustration of Ruskinesque romantic ruins or “lost” landscapes away from the recognizable popular culture references to famous works. The theoretical framework will apply Gaston Bachelard’s concept of eulogized space and poetics of space, which is space “imbued with human value, space that has been seized upon by the ima...

This illustrated section summarizes the main ideas of the book will present a selection of elements to consider when analyzing historized spaces in comics, which could be used in classrooms or by scholars consider when reading medievalist comics.

This chapter moves into affective stylistics, reception theory, and current calls from pedagogical studies to use comics in history classrooms, considering how paratext and reader environments affect the reading of space in medievalist comics. The paratext around the comics locates the images within museum references and the trappings of scholarly...

Moving from spaces that are assumed to be real to spaces that are clearly fantastical, this chapter will consider spaces depicted around dreams, ghosts, and magic to argue that the blending of the gothic and imagined spaces featuring ‘unnatural narratives’ (Jan Alber 2016) with ultra-realistic depiction is a type of cross fictionality (explored in...

This rubric is intended as a supplementary framework for reading research comics, and is part of the article by E. A. Woock, (2023) “Rubric and Metrics for Peer Reviewing Research Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.10179. The format of this worksheet and question sections I. and II. are a...

As comics-based research (CBR) gains wider use, methodological and practical guides have been developed to aid scholars in the creation of research comics. Similar support has not yet appeared for the other key element of scholarly publication: peer review. This article aims to build on the current best practices of CBR methodology to outline an ea...

Medievalist female characters appear with regularity in popular comics (such as Natasha Alterici’s Heathen) and their popularity leads them to be optioned for major TV series or movies (as Heathen has been). Though the Viking heroine of Heathen sports an ironically stereotypical ‘barbarian bikini’, inherited from Red Sonja and codified throu...

This comic is the result of a practice-based approach to comics studies and comics-based research methodology. The aim was to explore the dynamics which occur when the author is visualized, or 'embodied,' on the graphic plane in a non-fiction or essayistic comic. The comic considers the use of the embodied author in data visualization, citation, fo...

Page 4 includes: a general layout and stylistic reference to Chris Ware's illustrations, the dragon form of Nimona from the eponymous graphic novel (Noelle Stevenson, 2015), T.S. Elliot's opening from The Wasteland (1922), the "Put a Bird on It" schtick from the tv show Portlandia with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (S1 E2, 2011), Alan Moore's...

This study examines how medievalist comics insist on their historical accuracy (implying that they represent authentic facts, rather than simulacra) and routinely present brutality and invisibility as linked with an authentic Middle Ages while also restricting fair representation to the world of fantasy. Witches and pagan magical beings are context...

This article in comics form looks at an under-investigated phenomenon of nun characters appearing in contemporary comics as a unified trope. Appearing with a strong degree of uniformity, these stock characters share a unique costume, weaponry, repeated storylines, and most importantly, are couched in medievalism. To explain the development of these...

The notion that Bishop Robert, personally, would be actively taking a stance against mendicants, or the Franciscans specifically on the issue of stigmata, seems contradictory to statements Robert made concerning stigmata and the utility of preachers in his own writings. The assumption that Robert was an antimendicant places blind faith in the credu...