Critical survey of graphic novels : independents & underground classics / editors, Bart H. Beaty, University of Calgary, Stephen Weiner, Maynard, Massachusetts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaty, Bart.

Contributor:

Beaty, Bart H., editor.

Weiner, Stephen, editor.

Series:

Critical survey of graphic novels.

Critical survey of graphic novels

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphic novels--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Underground comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Underground comic books, strips, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations (some color), portraits

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Independents & underground classics

Independents and underground classics

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2019]

Summary:

Offers nearly 250 essays covering graphic novels and core comics series, focusing on the independents and underground genre that form today's canon for academic coursework and library collections.

Contents:

Volume 1. A.D.: New Orleans after the deluge

Adventures of Luther Arkwright, the

Adventures of Tintin, the

Age of bronze: the story of the Trojan War

Age of reptiles

Airtight garage of Jerry Cornelius

Alan's war: the memories of G.I. Alan Cope

Alec: the years have pants

Alice in sunderland: an entertainment

Aliens

American born Chinese

American splendor: from off the streets of Cleveland

Anya's ghost

Arrival, the

Asterios polyp

Asterix

Aya of Yopougon

Bacchus

Ballad of Doctor Richardson, the

Berlin: city of stones

Black hole

Blackmark

Blankets: an illustrated novel

Blueberry

Bone

Book of Genesis, the

Boulevard of broken dreams, the

Box office poison

Boxers and saints

Burma chronicles

Cages

Cancer vixen: a true story

Cartoon history of the universe, the

Castle waiting

Chicken with plums

City of glass

Clumsy

Color trilogy, the

Complete Essex County, the

Complete Fritz the Cat, the

Contract with God, and other tenement stories, a

Curious case of Benjamin Button, the

David Boring

Dead memory

Dear Julia

Deogratias: a tale of Rwanda

Diary of a mosquito abatement man

Dropsie Avenue: the neighborhood

Dykes to watch out for

Ed the Happy Clown: the definitive Ed Book

Elk's run

Embroideries

Epileptic

Ethel and Ernest: a true story

Exit wounds

Far Arden

Fax from Sarajevo: a story of survival

The fixer: a story from Sarajevo

Flaming carrot comics

Flood! A novel in pictures

Footnotes in Gaza: a graphic novel

Frank book, the

Friends with boys

From hell: being a melodrama in sixteen parts

Fun home: a family tragicomic

Gemma Bovery

Get a life

Ghost world

Give it up! and other short stories

Glacial period

Golem's mighty swing, the

Goliath

Good-bye, chunky rice

Hard boiled

Harum scarum

Harvey Kurtzman's jungle book: or, up from the apes! (and right back down)

Hate

Haunted

He done her wrong: the great American novel - and not a word in it

Hey, wait

Hicksville

History of violence, a

Home after dark

Houdini: the handcuff king.

Volume 2. Ice haven

Incognegro: a graphic mystery

I never liked you: a comic-strip narrative

In the shadow of No Towers

It rhymes with lust

It's a bird...

It's a good life, if you don't weaken: a picture novella

It was the war of the trenches

Jar of fools: a picture story

Jew in Communist Prague, a: 1. loss of innocence

Jew of New York, the: a historical romance

Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on Earth

Journey: the adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire

Journey into Mohawk Country

Julius Knipl, real estate photographer: stories

Kabuki

Kafka

Kampung boy

Kane

King: a comics biography

Kings in disguise

Laika

La perdida

Last day in Vietnam: a memory

Leave it to chance

Life and times of Scrooge McDuck, the

Life sucks

Like a velvet glove cast in iron

Long time relationship

Lost cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor-Sutton feud, and reconstruction Texas

Lost girl

Lost girls

Louis Riel: a comic-strip biography

Love and rockets

Lucky

Mail order bride

Market day

Maus: a survivor's tale

Metropol: the complete series + Metropol A.D.

Minor miracles: long ago and once upon a time back when uncles were heroic, cousins were clever, and miracles happened on every block

Monologues for the coming plague

Mouse guard

My mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill

Nat Turner

Night fisher

9/11 report, the: a graphic adaptation

Notes for a war story

Omaha the cat dancer

One! Hundred! Demons!

Our cancer year

Owly

Palestine

Palomar: the heartbreak soup stories

Passionate journey

Paul

Paying for it: a comic-strip memoir about being a john

Pedro and me: friendship, loss, and what I learned

Percy Gloom

Perfect example

Persepolis

Photographer, the: into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

Plain Janes, the

Predator

Pride of Baghdad: inspired by a true story

Pyongyang: a journey in North Korea

Queen and country

Rabbi's cat, the

Rex Mundi

Richard Stark's Parker

Road to perdition

Robot dreams

Rose

Roughneck

Safe area Goraz̆de: the war in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95

Scary godmother: the boo flu

Scott Pilgrim

Schenzhen: a travelogue from China.

Volume 3. Shortcomings

Shutterbug follies

Signal to noise

Sin City

Skim

Skitzy: the story of Floyd W. Skitzafroid

Sloth

Small killing, a

Smile

Exit stage left: the Snagglepuss chronicles

Snowman, the

Stitches: a memoir

Strangers in paradise

Stray bullets

Stray toasters

Streak of chalk

Stuck rubber baby

Sucke: the status of basil

Summer blonde

Summer of love, the

System, the

Tale of one bad rat, the

Tales of the beanworld: a most peculiar comic book experience

Tamara Drewe

Tank Girl

30 days of night

Three fingers

300

Three shadows

Tragical comedy or comical tragedy of Mr. Punch, the

Transit

Treasury of Victorian murder, a

Tricked

Twentieth century eightball

Usagi Yojimbo

Violent cases

Walking dead, the

Wall, the: growing up behind the Iron Curtain

Waltz with Bashir: a Lebanon war story

We are on our own

What it is

When the wind blows

Whiteout

Why I hate Saturn

Wilson

Xenozoic tales

Yossel

You are here

You'll never know: book one: a good and decent man

Zombies vs robots

Zot! The complete black and white collection, 1987-1991.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682179581

1682179583

OCLC:

1127274270