Arguing comics : literary masters on a popular medium / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heer, Jeet.

Worcester, Kent, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Art Spiegelman's Maus-a two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust-won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, comics scholarship grew increasingly popular and notable. The rise of ""serious"" comics has generated growing levels of interest as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals continue to explore the history, aesthetics, and semiotics of the comics medium. Yet those who write about the comics often assume analysis of the medium didn't begin until the cultural studies movement was underway. Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium brings together nearly two dozen essays by majo

Contents:

From "The tyranny of the pictorial" / Sidney Fairfield

From "The reign of the spectacular" / Annie Russell Marble

From "The humor of the colored supplement" / Ralph Bergengren

Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts / Thomas Mann

"The Krazy Kat that walks by himself" / Gilbert Seldes

"A foreword to Krazy" / e. e. cummings

"A mash note to Crockett Johnson" / Dorothy Parker

"Steig's cartoons: review of All embarrassed by William Steig" / Clement Greenberg

"Limits of common sense: review of Years of wrath: a cartoon history, 1931 1945 by David Low" / Clement Greenberg

"Notes on mass culture" / Irving Howe

"Masterpieces as cartoons" / Delmore Schwartz

"Woofed with dreams" / Robert Warshow

"Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. Wertham" / Robert Warshow

"The labyrinth of Saul Steinberg" / Harold Rosenberg

"Comic strips" / Manny Farber

"Mickey Mouse and Americanism" / Walter J. Ong

"Bogey sticks for pogo men" / Walter J. Ong

From The mechanical bride : folklore of industrial man / Marshall McLuhan

"Comics: mad vestibule to TV" / Marshall McLuhan

From Love and death: a study in censorship / Gershon Legman

"The middle against both ends" / Leslie Fiedler

"Over the cliff" / Donald Phelps

"Reprise: 'Love and death'" / Donald Phelps

"C.L.R. James on comic strips" / C.L.R. James

"Letter to Daniel Bell" / C.L.R. James

"The myth of superman" / Umberto Eco.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-91731-5

9786612917318

1-60473-588-0

OCLC:

688292103