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| Genre/Form: | Einführung |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Wolk |
| ISBN: | 9780306815096 0306815095 |
| OCLC Number: | 219756039 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | VIII, 405 S. : ill. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Theory and history. What comics are, and what they aren't -- Auteurs, the history of art comics, and how to look at ugly drawings -- What's good about bad comics, and what's bad about good comics -- Superheroes and superreaders -- Pictures, words and the space between them -- pt. 2. Reviews and commentary. David B.: The battle against the real world -- Chester Brown: The outsider -- Steve Ditko: A is A -- Will Eisner and Frank Miller: The raconteurs -- Gilbert Hernandez: Spiraling into the system -- Jaime Hernandez: Mad love -- Craig Thompson and James Kochalka: Craft vs. cuteness -- Hope Larson: The cartography of joy -- Carla Speed McNeil: Shape-changing demons, birth-yurts and robot secretaries -- Alan Moore: The house of the magus -- Grant Morrison: The invisible king -- Dave Sim: Aardvark politick -- The dark mirrors of Jim Starlin's Warlock -- Tomb of Dracula: the cheap, strong stuff -- Kevin Huizenga: Visions from the enchanted gas station -- Charles Burns and Art Spiegelman: Draw yourself raw -- Why does Chris Ware hate fun? -- Alison Bechdel: Reframing memory -- Afterword: The rough wave and the smooth wave. |
| Responsibility: | Douglas Wolk. |
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Abstract:
Suddenly, comics are everywhere: filling bookshelves with innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. This book shows us why this is and how it came to be. It illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art.
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