Renald "Luz" Luzier was a staffer at Charlie Hebdo who, in this book, tries to come to grips with the terrorist attack that took the lives of his friends in January 2015. "Alors naît Catharsis. Un livre thérapeutique où Luz nous livre par petites nouvelles ses pensées, son quot…
"Ce livre raconte l'histoire vraie d'un enfant blond et de sa famille dans la Libye de Kadhafi et la Syrie d'Hafez Al-Assad. Né d'un père syrien et d'une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf grandit d'abord à Tripoli, en Libye, où son père vient d'être nommé professeur. Issu d'un milieu …
"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 Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic memoir, to the dozens of superhero films that are …
Whether you're new to the world of manga-style graphic novels or a longtime reader on the lookout for the next hot series, here's a comprehensive guide to the wide, wonderful world of Japanese comics! Includes incisive, full-length reviews of stories and artwork; titles rated fr…
Whether you're new to the world of manga-style graphic novels or a longtime reader on the lookout for the next hot series, here's a comprehensive guide to the wide, wonderful world of Japanese comics! Includes incisive, full-length reviews of stories and artwork; titles rated fr…
"Caricaturing Culture in India is a highly original history of political cartoons in India. Drawing on the analysis of newspaper cartoons since the 1870s, archival research and interviews with prominent Indian cartoonists, this ambitious study combines historical narrative with …
"Caricaturing Culture in India is a highly original history of political cartoons in India. Drawing on the analysis of newspaper cartoons since the 1870s, archival research and interviews with prominent Indian cartoonists, this ambitious study combines historical narrative with …
Logicomix
by Doxiades, Apostolos K., Papadatos, Alekos, Di Donna, Annie, Papadimitriou, Christos H.
An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendar…
A comics studies reader
A comics studies reader
This volume presents nearly 30 essays on a wide variety of comic forms such as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.
"Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method …
Images are not neutral conveyors of messages that are sent around the globe in order to reach a global audience. They represent a force that can trigger very different reactions and counteract new visual tendencies towards hegemony within a global world. The volume contains a co…
