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The best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels. The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the gra...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Worcester, Kent, 1959- (Editor), Heer, Jeet (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Comic
Comic books, strips, etc.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HUMOR > Form > Comic Strips & Cartoons.
Bandes dessinees > Histoire et critique.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels. The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, romance comics, and superheroes. It explores the stylistic achievements of manga, the international anti-comics campaign, and power and class in Mexican comic books and English illustrated stories.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781617035500

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