The US graphic novel / Paul Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Paul, 1979- author.

Series:

Critical insights in American studies.

Critical insights in American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphic novels--United States--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. It pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art historians, journalists, and reviewers debated whether it was possible for a comic to be a novel - debates that accelerated after the term 'graphic novel' was coined by the comics fan Richard Kyle in 1964. This study underlines the proximity of the graphic novel to other media, showing that this cultural form is not only the meeting place between periodical comics and books, but that graphic novels are in dialogue with films, posters and computer screens.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Series Editors’ Preface

Introduction

1. Precursors and Woodcut Novels: 14 September 1842 to the 1930s

2. Comics, Comics Everywhere at Mid-century

3. In Search of Adult Comics Readers: 1961–72

4. Declaration of Independents: 1973–9

5. ‘The Comic Book Grows Up’: 1979–91

6. Boom and Bust, Mainstream and Alternative: The 1990s

7. Twenty-first-century Graphic Novels

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781474423366

1474423361

9781474423359

1474423353

OCLC:

1352887523