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Graphic novels now : building, managing, and marketing a dynamic collection
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ISBN: 0838998038 9780838998038 9780838909041 0838909043 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association,

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In 1992, Maus, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, won the Pulitzer Prize. The genre has been growing ever since, appealing to the visual-oriented Gen-X and Gen-Y, as well as to reluctant readers, those of all ages seeking alternative viewpoints, and anyone willing to take both image and word into consideration. Graphic Novels Now helps librarians new to the genre with all the key issues related to these unique books. Expert author Francisca Goldsmith shares smart advice, from how to develop a well-rounded collection by finding reviews and reliable publishers and distributors to shelving, catal


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Graphic History
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ISBN: 144384358X 9781299658929 129965892X 9781443843584 1443840750 9781443840750 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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When it comes to recounting history, issues arise as to whose stories are told and how reliable is the telling. This collection of fourteen essays explores the unique ways in which graphic novels can aid us in addressing those issues while shedding new light on a variety of texts, including those by canonical North American and European writers Art Spiegelman (Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers), Alan Moore (From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Return...


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Uncanny bodies : superhero comics and disability
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ISBN: 0271086300 9780271086323 9780271086309 0271086327 9780271084749 027108474X 9780271084756 0271084758 Year: 2019 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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"Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world"--Provided by publisher.


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The US Graphic Novel.
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ISBN: 1474423353 1474423361 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Provides a history of US graphic novels from the 1910s to the present.


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The rise of the graphic novel : computational criticism and the evolution of literary value
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ISBN: 1009182943 1009192515 1009182935 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Bringing digital humanities methods to the study of comics, this monograph traces the emergence of the graphic novel at the intersection of popular and literary culture. Based on a representative corpus of over 250 graphic novels from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, it shows how the genre has built on the visual style of comics while adopting selected features of the contemporary novel. This argument positions the graphic novel as a crucial case study for our understanding of twenty-first-century culture. More than simply a niche format, graphic novels demonstrate how contemporary literature reworks elements of genre narrative, reconfiguring rather than abolishing distinctions between high and low. The book also puts forward a new historical periodization for the graphic novel, centered on integration into the literary marketplace and leading to an explosive growth in page length and a diversification of aesthetic styles.


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Drawing from the archives : comics memory in the contemporary graphic novel
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ISBN: 1009250957 1009250922 1009250949 1009250930 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Following Art Spiegelman's declaration that 'the future of comics is in the past,' this book considers comics memory in the contemporary North American graphic novel. Cartoonists such as Chris Ware, Seth, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, and others have not only produced some of the most important graphic novels, they have also turned to the history of comics as a common visual heritage to pass on to new readers. This book is a full-length study of contemporary cartoonists when they are at work as historians: it offers a detailed description of how they draw from the archives of comics history, examining the different gestures of collecting, curating, reprinting, forging, swiping, and undrawing that give shape to their engagement with the past. In recognizing these different acts of transmission, this book argues for a material and vernacular history of how comics are remembered, shared, and recirculated over time.


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The rise and reason of comics and graphic literature : critical essays on the form.
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ISBN: 9780786442942 Year: 2010 Publisher: Jefferson McFarland

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"These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and nonfiction"--Provided by publisher.


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Openness of comics : Generating meaning within flexible structures
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ISBN: 9781496805935 1496805933 Year: 2016 Publisher: Jackson University Press of Mississippi


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The Cambridge history of the graphic novel
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ISBN: 9781107171411 1107171415 9781316622209 9781316759981 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.


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More critical approaches to comics : theories and methods
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ISBN: 9781138359529 1138359521 9781138359536 113835953X 9780429433696 0429433697 9780429782749 0429782748 9780429782763 0429782764 9780429782756 0429782756 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including disability studies, parasocial relationships, scientific humanities, queer theory, linguistics, critical geography, philosophical aesthetics, historiography, and much more.

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