On the Graphic Novel - Softcover

García, Santiago

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496813189 ISBN 13: 9781496813183

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2017

Synopsis

A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world.

García not only treats the formal components of the art, but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children, often viewed as unedifying and even at times as a threat to moral character, comics art has come a long way. With such examples from around the world as Spain, France, Germany, and Japan, García illustrates how the graphic novel, with its increasingly global and aesthetically sophisticated profile, represents a new model for graphic narrative production that empowers authors and challenges longstanding social prejudices against comics and what they can achieve.

About this title

Book Description:

An essential history of the narrative art form's global rise

About the Author:

Originally from Spain, Santiago García, Baltimore, Maryland, is a writer, critic, and translator of American comics into Spanish.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1496813189
• ISBN 13: 9781496813183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250