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On the graphic novel / Santiago García ; translated by Bruce Campbell

Author
García, Santiago, 1968-
Uniform Title
Novela gráfica. English
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Physical Description
xvii, 230 pages, 74 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Campbell, Bruce, 1964-

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Contents
Preface to the American edition : After La novela gráfica -- Preface : The graphic novel and adult art -- An old name for a new art -- Adult comics before adult comics, from the nineteenth century to 1960 -- The Comix underground, 1968-1975 -- Alternative comics, 1980-2000 -- The graphic novel -- The last avant-garde art.
Summary
"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. Garcia 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 characters, comics art has come a long way. With such examples from around the world as Spain, France, Germany, and Japan, Garcia 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 comes and what they can achieve"--
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ISBN
9781628464818 (hardback)
162846481X (hardback)
Note
The unnumbered pages are in four separate sequences.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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