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The rise of the American comics artist : creators and contexts / edited by Paul Williams and James Lyons.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History--20th century.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Cartoonists--United States--Biography.
- Cartoonists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Creators and contexts
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the comic-book industry in the United States forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. This volume surveys the production, distribution, and reception of American comics from this pivotal decade to the present. The book also includes essays on landmark creators such as Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware.
- Contents:
- In the year 3794 / Paul Williams and James Lyons
- How the graphic novel changed American comics / Stephen Weiner
- "Is this a book?" DC Vertigo and the redefinition of comics in the 1990's / Julia Round
- Signals from airstrip one : the British invasion of mainstream American comics / Chris Murray
- State of the nation and the Freedom fighters arc / Graham J. Murphy
- Critique, caricature, and compulsion in Joe Sacco's comics journalism / Adam Rosenblatt and Andrea A. Lunsford
- Too much commerce man? Shannon Wheeler and the ironies of the "Rebel cell" / James Lyons
- Comics against themselves : Chris Ware's graphic narratives as literature / David M. Ball
- Questions of "contemporary women's comics" / Paul Williams
- Theorizing sexuality in comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders
- Feminine Latin/o American identities on the American alternative landscape : from the women of Love and rockets to La perdida / Ana Merino
- Making comics respectable : how Maus helped redefine a medium / Ian Gordon
- "A purely American tale" : the tragedy of racism and Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth as great American novel / Paul Williams
- "That mouse's shadow" : the canonization of Spiegelman's Maus / Andrew Loman.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-93927-0
- 9786612939273
- 1-60473-793-X
- OCLC:
- 690212916
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