Graven Images

Comic Books Have Increasingly Become A Vehicle For Serious Social Commentary And, Specifically, For Innovative Religious Thought. Practitioners Of Both Traditional Religions And Religious Movements Have Begun To Employ Comics As A Missionary Tool, While Humanists And Religious Progressives Use Comics' Unique Fusion Of Text And Image To Criticize Traditional Theologies And To Alternatives. Addressing The Increasing Fervor With Which The Public Has Come To View Comics As An Art Form And Americans' Fraught But Passionate Relationship With Religion, Graven Images Explores With Real Insight The Roles Of Religion In Comic Books And Graphic Essays By Scholars And Comics Creators, Graven Images Observes The Frequency With Which Religious Material-in Devout, Educational, Satirical, Or Critical Contexts-occurs In Both Independent And Mainstream Comics.