Description: How comics generate significance and weave images and words into a narrative art
Brief description: Maaheen Ahmed is associate professor of comparative literature at Ghent University, Belgium, and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO). Ahmed is author of Monstrous Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics and Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures, both published by University Press of Mississippi. She has also published articles in and edited special issues for European Comic Art; Authorship; SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture; European Journal of American Studies; and International Journal of Comic Art.
Review Quotes: The introduction sets the tone for the whole volume: in clear and methodical but still very attractive prose, Ahmed explains precisely what she means by 'openness' (via Umberto Eco) and what to expect from the following pages. Transitioning to the usefulness of openness as an analytical tool in literature more broadly, and then to its relevance to comics theory, readers will encounter both the familiar and the new, and discover precisely how innovative Ahmed's approach is, and thus how potentially game-changing Openness of Comics is for the field.--Richard Scully, University of New England "European Comic Art, Volume: 13 (2020)"