Storied Objects: A Graphic Narrative Reflection on Material Metaphors and Digital Writing

Erin Kathleen Bahl Comics and Graphic NarrativesEdited by Sergio Figueiredo, Jason Helms, and Anastasia Salter Information and Pricing978-1-64317-562-1 (paperback, $19.95); 978-1-64317-563-8 (PDF, $9.95). © 2026 by Parlor Press, with graphical illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 144 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book STORIED OBJECTS is a comics-form monograph that investigates metaphor in digital scholarship through autoethnographic narrative and reflective multimodal methods. ERIN KATHLEEN BAHL examines material metaphor as rhetorical invention strategy through a deep dive into one creator’s approach to designing digital scholarship. Her investigation guides readers through illustrative tours of the metaphor-based origin stories behind three published academic webtexts. Bahl offers practical tools for tracking how metaphors shape design and argument together at evolving stages of a project’s de