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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 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 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.
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A survey of the best scholarly writing on the form, craft, history, and significance of the comics
Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester have, once again, performed admirably in producing another compendious survey of comics scholarship. Their earlier effort in this vein, Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, scanned the historical landscape for essays about comics written by various literary critics and the like; their current production, A Comics Studies Reader, compiles 28 essays by contemporary scholars and critics. The result is a sort of panorama of current serious thinking about the art of cartooning in all its forms. (Robert C. Harvey)
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Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester have, once again, performed admirably in producing another compendious survey of comics scholarship. Their earlier effort in this vein, Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, scanned the historical landscape for essays about comics written by various literary critics and the like; their current production, A Comics Studies Reader, compiles 28 essays by contemporary scholars and critics. The result is a sort of panorama of current serious thinking about the art of cartooning in all its forms. (Robert C. Harvey)
"The collection as a whole is cohesive and informative. It works to guide the novice reader toward a greater understanding of comics studies, and provides a more in-depth understanding of the issues for those versed in comics studies. White several essays do assume a deeper knowledge of comics collectively or of a particular comic specifically, the editors crafted the preface to each section to bridge possible gaps readers may have. The result is an eminently interesting and educational reader."- Kristine Whorton, Studies in Popular Culture (Fall 2009)
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- PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1604731087
- ISBN 13 9781604731088
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
- EditorHeer Jeet, Worcester Kenton
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