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The Power of Comics is the first textbook to introduce undergraduate students to a broader understanding of the medium and its communication potential. Similar to film appreciation courses of the past, this text is intended for a comics appreciation course offered at most colleges and universities, but could easily be adapted to many different approaches to comics studies. It was through the survey or appreciation course that film became established as a legitimate field of study in American higher education. Yet, comics courses seldom take a general appreciation approach because there is no textbook for such a course. Courses that do attempt a broad approach to the comics medium have to draw material from so many different books, articles and comics that they are cost prohibitive. This text would fill that obvious gap in the market for instructors interested in a text that presents a more comprehensive view of the medium than anything currently on the market. The Power of Comics deals only with comic books and graphic novels. One reason for this focus is that no one text can hope to do justice to both strips and books; there is simply too much to cover. Preference is given to comic books because in their longer form, the graphic novel, they have the greatest potential for depth and complexity of expression. As comic strips shrink in size and become more inane in content, comic books are becoming a serious art form.

Comic books, strips, etc. --- Graphic novels --- History and criticism. --- Graphic novels. --- 82-312.5 --- 82-7 --- Stripverhaal --- Humor. Satire --- 82-7 Humor. Satire --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Comic strips --- Comics --- Funnies --- Manga (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhua (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhwa (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Serial picture books --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Wit and humor, Pictorial --- 82-7 Prose satire. Humour, epigram, parody etc. --- Prose satire. Humour, epigram, parody etc. --- Manhua (Comic books) --- Manhwa (Comic books) --- 82-931 --- 070.84 --- 741.5 --- 741.5 Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen --- Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen --- 070.84 Comics. Stripverhalen--(in de krant) --- Comics. Stripverhalen--(in de krant) --- 82-931 Stripverhaal --- Sociology of culture --- Drawing --- Literature --- History --- geschiedenis --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- beeldverhalen --- Bandes dessinées --- Histoire et critique