| Summary: | Unflattening (2015) is the first
comic published by Harvard University Press. It is the book version of Nick Sousanis’
PhD dissertation from Teachers College, Columbia University; a project that has
commanded the attention of the comics scholarship community precisely because it is
comics as scholarship. This is a collaborative book review in the form of a dialogue
between two authors, with each of the reviewers asking the other questions about the
book; it is an effort at “unflattening.” In the responses, the reviewers have
(wilfully?) misunderstood each other and deviated from the question as they pursue their
lines of thought. Unflattening is provocative, and critical
comments in the review are a result of Sousanis making us think and question. The
reviewers hope that this project is not just a one-off, and that Sousanis and others
continue to explore thinking through the multimodal medium of
comics.
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