Henry Jenkins’ Outtakes: Comics Less A Medium Than A Form Of Expression

In two outtakes from his Convergence Culture made available on his blog, the writer Henry Jenkins looks at comics as an example of his theories. In doing so he provides a snapshot of comics that's slightly different than what one usually sees from books tackling the subject. The main difference here -- and perhaps the primary value of what Jenkins writes -- is I think in seeing comics as existing in a state of change and trying to understand that collection of relationships as a whole rather than trying to break it down as competing models and one way of doing things coming to dominate another.

I'm not sure I agree with any of it, but the notions floated fascinate, and I find appealing the idea that comics should be seen far less often in terms of various dichotomies. For instance, some days I suspect comics is already well within its digital age and that this has little to do with the overthrow or even the decline of print.

I hope you'll read those two entries.

thanks, Gus Mastrapa
 
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