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The rise of the American comics artist : creators and contexts /

Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic-book industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank MillerÃ?'s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williams, Paul, 1979-, Lyons, James, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 1990s / 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.