| On the Graphic Novel Contributor(s): García, Santiago (Author), Campbell, Bruce (Translator) |
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ISBN: 162846481X ISBN-13: 9781628464818 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels - Art | Popular Culture - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 741.59 |
| LCCN: 2014042192 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.42 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garc a 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. Garc a 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, Garc a 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garcia, Santiago: - Originally from Spain, Santiago García, Baltimore, Maryland, is a writer, critic, and translator of American comics into Spanish. |