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Comics as Philosophy
Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European adventure classics. Included among the contributions are essays on existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel "Ghost World," ecocriticism in Paul Chadwick's long-running "Concrete" series, and political philosophies in Herge's perennially popular "The Adventures of Tintin." Modern political concerns inform Terry Kading's discussion of how superhero comics have responde...
Well Connected
"The author taps into several scholarly traditions to examine the way people of Cairo interact with one another, with the government, and with social structures in order to navigate the water systems (and lack thereof) that affect their lives, day-to-day. The author's extensive ethnographic fieldwork during the implementation of the septic system shines through in the stories that she tells of people in the community during these transitions, and as the long-term impacts of the Egyptian revolution and subsequent military coup have become clearer"--
Vox Lycei 1989-1990
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Nyquist, Christopher, Moyle, and Beauchamp Ancestry Back to Europe, and Descent Lines from the Late 1800s
Michael Sheldon Nyquist was born in 1949 in Marquette, Michigan. His parents were George Robert Nyquist (1925-1977) and Hazel Irene Moyle. His grandparents were Arthur Ernest Nyquist (1887-1954), Grace Mary Christopher (1884-1965), George Edward Moyle (1894-1978) and Irene Emelia Beauchamp (1896-1971). Ancestors and relatives lived mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Quebec, Ontario, Sweden, England and Belgium.
