Reading Comics How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean

Name: Reading Comics How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
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ISBN: 9780306815096

ISBN-10: 0306815095

ISBN-13: 9780306815096

Edition: 2007

Authors: Douglas Wolk

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Suddenly, Comics are Everywhere: A Newly matured art form, filing bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics--from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim to Chris Ware--and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art. Reading Comics is accessible to the hardcore fan and the curious newcomer; it is the first book for people who want to know not just what comics are wroth reading, but also the ways to think and talk and argue about them.

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 7/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Theory and History



What Comics Are and What They Aren't



Auteurs, the History of Art Comics, and How to Look at Ugly Drawings



What's Good About Bad Comics and What's Bad About Good Comics



Superheroes and Superreaders



Pictures, Words, and the Space Between Them



Reviews and Commentary


A Small Disclaimer



David B.: The Battle Against the Real World



Chester Brown: The Outsider



Steve Ditko: A Is A



Will Eisner and Frank Miller: The Raconteurs



Gilbert Hernandez: Spiraling into the System



Jaime Hernandez: Mad Love



Craig Thompson and James Kochalka: Craft Versus Cuteness



Hope Larson: The Cartography of Joy



Carla Speed McNeil: Shape-Changing Demons, Birth-Yurts, and Robot Secretaries



Alan Moore: The House of the Magus



Grant Morrison: The Invisible King



Dave Sim: Aardvark Politick



The Dark Mirrors of Jim Starlin's Warlock



Tomb of Dracula: The Cheap, Strong Stuff



Kevin Huizenga: Visions from the Enchanted Gas Station



Charles Burns and Art Spiegelman: Draw Yourself Raw



Why Does Chris Ware Hate Fun?



Alison Bechdel: Reframing Memory


Afterword: The Rough Wave and the Smooth Wave


Notes


Index