| This dissertation presents an analytical framework I devised and termed “The Interrogative Mode”. The interrogative mode aims to show readers how linking the diverse approaches of comics criticism, suggested by different critics, and presenting them in a question form, can lead to a comprehensive analysis of the medium that attends to its various interdependent and interconnected aspects equally and simultaneously. Since comics is a network whose multiple constituents are correlated, it demands the use of the interrogative mode that attends to the relationships among the different aspects that compose the medium. The interrogative mode’s question form is a model that urges critics to think of the importance of providing nonexperts with practical reading strategies. The questions are accessible to educators who aim to teach comics courses (or to teach courses on different topicsthrough comics), and to students (as well as nonexperts and non-specialists) who are searching for a practical analytical framework that can help them navigate and/or analyze the mediumof comics. The interrogative mode is a blueprint that can be developed and modified in the future through finding more critical questions in different disciplines (as it is an interdisciplinary and a multidisciplinary approach) and through conducting more analyses of various types of comics. Key words: Comics, Comics Criticism, Comics Pedagogy, Graphic Narratives, Comics Critique,Teaching Comics, Navigating Comics, The Interrogative Mode, Comics Analysis. |