Unmasked Lex Text: A Review of On Comics and Legal Aesthetics – Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing : On Comics and Legal Aesthetics – Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing, by Thomas Giddens, Routledge, 230 pages, 2018, 29 b/w images, ISBN: 978-1138224032

Abstract

This review probes On Comics and Legal Aesthetics – Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing by Thomas Giddens ( Routledge, 2018). The book explores the unique ways in which comics – with their hybridized text and images – can augment the ways we come to know of law’s rationality. This review explains the primary methodologies that Giddens utilizes such as highlighting the strict rationality of legal texts and their chaotic edges through comics narratives. It concludes with a warm endorsement of this deeply intellectual contribution to comics studies.