A comics studies reader

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The best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels. The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, romance comics, and superheroes. It explores the stylistic achievements of manga, the international anti-comics campaign, and power an…

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Title Statements

Full title :A comics studies reader / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.

Summary

The best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels. The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, romance comics, and superheroes. It explores the stylistic achievements of manga, the international anti-comics campaign, and power and class in Mexican comic books and English illustrated stories.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 380 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781617035500, 1617035505
oclc:ocn794669895
LC Classification:PN6710
Dewey Decimal:741.5/69

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Bandes dessinées -- Histoire et critique Comic Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc. -- History an… Criticism, interpretation, etc HUMOR -- Form SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture