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Distinctive styles and authorship in alternative comics / Lukas Etter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Etter, Lukas, author.
- Series:
- Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book
- Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 70
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic books, strips, etc--Canada--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc--Authorship.
- Canada.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VIII, 220 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics addresses the benefits and limits of analyses of style in alternative comics. It offers three close readings of works serially published between 1980 and 2018 – Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For, and Jason Lutes’ Berlin – and discusses how artistic style may influence the ways in which readers construct authorship.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Alternative Comics and Artistic Styles
- 3 (Un)characteristic Traits and Lines in Art Spiegelman’s Maus (1980–1991)
- 4 Communicating beyond Panels and Pages: Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008)
- 5 Jason Lutes’ Berlin (1996–2018) as a Stylistic Showroom
- 6 Ongoing Conversations
- Works Cited
- Index of Artists
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110693683
- 3110693682
- OCLC:
- 1229161932
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