Corporeality as a critical key to Comics Studies: a review of Comics beyond text and image, by Benjamin Fraser

Abstract

It presents Benjamin Fraser’s Comics Beyond Text and Image as a study that proposes understanding comics as bodies in motion rather than as simple systems of representation. Grounded in philosophical approaches, Fraser redefines graphic narrative as material action, insisting that the page thinks as it moves. The text shows how the book establishes itself as a critical intervention capable of repositioning the debate in academic comics research by emphasizing materiality and graphic action as the core of the reading experience.