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The comics
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Brian Walker |
Uses illustrations, biographical profiles, and descriptions of genres and themes to survey the variety of American comics and their creators. |
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Crossing boundaries in graphic narrative
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Jake Jakaitis,James F. Wurtz |
"The essays examine the politics of comic form and narrative, ways graphic narrative and sequential art "cross over" into other genres, and how these articulations challenge the ways we read and inte… |
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"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"
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Tahneer Oksman |
American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing … |
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Why comics?
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Hillary L. Chute |
"Over the past century, fans have elevated comics from the back pages of newspapers into one of our most celebrated forms of culture, from Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bec… |
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Asian comics
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John A. Lent |
"Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and c… |
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On the graphic novel
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Santiago García |
"A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the Unit… |
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Understanding Comics
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Scott McCloud |
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich his… |
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