Ilan Manouach in Review: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies

Pedro Moura is an independent scholar, teacher, and comics scriptwriter from Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD from the University of Lisbon and KU Leuven.

Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics Part 1: Textuality and Surfaces 1. Katz, Noirs & Tintin Akei Kongo ¿ Ilan Manouach¿s Critical Manifesto 2. Ilan Manouach¿s Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge: ontography and the past and future of stories 3. Whitewashing the Smudge. The Politics of Erasure and Unreadability in Ilan 4. The Void that Challenged Narrative: a Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier 5. Replacing and Reorganizing: a Discursive Arc about Cultural Production Part 2: Reading Practices 6. Reading Childly: Manouach¿s Riki Fermier and Cascao 7. Disability, Comics and the Shapereader 8. Shapereader and the Limits of Touch 9. Blanco: on Blank and Illegible Books Part 3: Rethinking the Pasts and the Futures of Comics 10. Manouach Contrabandier. Countering Practices to Industrial Publishing. 11. Haunted by Tradition: Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past 12. [CoCo]. Rogue Archives, Materiality and Conceptual Comics 13. Can Comics Think 14. Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker Afterword - Like a Robot Bereft of its Function