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A comics studies readerJeet Heer, Kent Worcester

A comics studies reader

Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester
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This book is a survey of the best scholars writing on the form, craft, history, and significance of the comics. 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 Töpffer, 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…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2012
    Comics Studies Reader
    University Press of Mississippi · 9781280691560
  • Other · English · 2011
    Comics Studies Reader
    University Press of Mississippi · 9781496850614
  • Other · English · 2011
    Comics Studies Reader
    University Press of Mississippi · 9781617035500
  • Other · English · 2008
    University Press of Mississippi · 380 pages · 9781604731088
Comic books, stripsHistory and criticism