A Comics Studies Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604731095 ISBN 13: 9781604731095

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2008

Synopsis

A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship and is ideal for classroom use. 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. Hattie Kennedy, writing for the website Bookriot.com (4/26/17), says that "this edited collection of essays, articles, and extracts from longer books is a brilliant place to start if you want to read a range of approaches to the construction of comics."

About this title

Book Description:

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)

From the Publisher:

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.

With contributions from
--Thomas Andrae
--Martin Barker
--Bart Beaty
--John Benson
--David Carrier
--Hillary Chute
--Peter Coogan
--Annalisa Di Liddo
--Ariel Dorfman
--Thierry Groensteen
--Robert C. Harvey
--Charles Hatfield
--M. Thomas Inge
--Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
--David Kasakove
--Adam Kern
--David Kunzle
--Pascal Lefèvre
--John Lent
--W. J. T. Mitchell
--Amy Kiste Nyberg
--Fusami Ogi
--Robert S. Petersen
--Anne Rubenstein
--Roger Sabin
--Gilbert Seldes
--Art Spiegelman
--Fredric Wertham
--Joseph Witek

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1604731095
• ISBN 13: 9781604731095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Heer Jeet, Worcester Kent