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A Comics Studies Reader

By Jeet Heer (Editor) & Kent Worcester (Editor)
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A Comics Studies Reader offers 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 Tpffer, 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.

A Comics Studies Reader introduces readers to the major debates and points of reference that continue to shape the field. It will interest anyone who wants to delve deeper into the world of comics and is ideal for classroom use.



Item Specifications...

Pages   380
Dimensions:   Length: 1" Width: 6" Height: 9"
Weight:   1.5 lbs.
Binding  Softcover
Release Date   Nov 6, 2008
ISBN  1604731095  
EAN  9781604731095  


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Inspiring pop cultural studies  Aug 23, 2009
At last, comics studies got its own legitimate places in between the study of culture, pop-art, and visual aesthetics.
 

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