Comics and Graphic Novels

Abstract

There are strong thematic, structural, aesthetic, cultural, and historical links between the Gothic and comics in Britain and America. These include themes such as appropriation, absorption, and inversion; the use of psychoanalytic and Gothic/horror motifs; structural devices such as embedded narratives, overwriting strategies (“retroactive continuity”), and the problematizing of the texts' own (non)fictional status; textual parallels such as comics' aesthetic of excess and ability to visually shock and horrify; and shared cultural factors such as a strong subcultural status and sense of delegitimacy, which has nonetheless allowed for the construction of a canon and reclassification as “literature.”

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