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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

Table of Contents:

• Origin stories: history and development of the genre. Of gutters and guttersnipes: Hogarth's legacy / Joyce Goggin
• Ridiculous rebellion: George L. Carlson and the recovery of Jingle Jangle Comics / Daniel F. Yezbick
• Suspended in mid-month: serialized storytelling in comics / Daniel Wüllner
• What we talk about when we talk about comics: theory and terminology. Balloonics: the visuals of balloons in comics / Charles Forceville, Tony Veale, and Kurt Feyaerts
• Remediation and the sense of time in graphic narratives / Kai Mikkonen
• Brick by brick: Chris Ware's architecture of the page / Angela Szczepaniak
• Out of the gutter: comics and adaptations. It was the best of two worlds, it was the worst of two worlds: the adaptation of novels in comics and graphic novels / Dirk Vanderbeke
• The 300 controversy: a case study in the politics of adaptation / Dan Hassler-Forest
• Men in tights? The superhero paradigm. The last action hero's swan song: graphic novelty or never-ending story? / Andreas Rauscher
• Extraordinary people: the superhero genre and celebrity culture in The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Jonathan E. Goldman
• Warren Ellis's Planetary: the archaeology of superheroes / Karin Kukkonen
• Drawing history: nonfiction in comics. Reconsidering comics journalism: information and experience in Joe Sacco's Palestine / Benjamin Woo
• Comics, trauma and cultural memory(ies) of 9/11 / Christophe Dony and Caroline van Linthout
• "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting wippers": a Barthesian analysis of the construction of fact and fiction in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From hell /Julia Round
• Graphic black nationalism: visualizing political narratives in the graphic novel / James Braxton Peterson.

Contributors:

Goggin, Joyce, 1959-

Hassler-Forest, Dan

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Rise and reason of comics and graphic literature (Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2010 — ISBN 9780786442942; LCCN 2010030564; OCLC Number 617425057)

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. — History and criticism

Graphic novels — History and criticism

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 238 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6714 .R57 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780786457618 (electronic bk.)
0786457619 (electronic bk.)
9780786442942
0786442948

OCLC Numbers:

667274263