ADULT COMICS: AN INTRODUCTION

Sabin, Roger

ISBN 10: 0415044197 / ISBN 13: 9780415044196

Published by Routledge, London and New York, 1993

About this Item

London and New York: Routledge, 1993. First edition. 9 1/4 x 6 inches: pp. xii, 321. Red stiff cardboard covers with illustration by Hunt Emerson and white, yellow and black type. With appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Edge and corner wear, scuffing, scratches, creasing to cover. Handling wear. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. An international history of comics for older readers, covering the end of the nineteenth-century to the early '90s.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ADULT COMICS: AN INTRODUCTION
• Publisher: Routledge, London and New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415044197
• ISBN 13: 9780415044196
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Media Studies

About this title

Synopsis

Today, adult comics are part of the cultural landscpae in a way that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, the history of comic books for older readers is traced from the end of the 19th century to the present, taking in the pioneering titles pre-Great War, the underground titles of the 1960s, "fan"-dom in the 1970s and 1980s, and today's boom (including "graphic novels" and "Viz"). An international section, covering comics in the US, Europe and Japan, and a thematic discussion, including the role of women, the graphic novel in context, and cultural overspill is included. By taking a broad sweep, Sabin demonstrates that the widely-held notion that comics "grew up" in the late 1980s is a mistaken one, largely invented by the media.

About the Author

Roger Sabin is a freelance arts journalist, living and working in London. He has written about comics for several national newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Independent, and New Statesman and Society.