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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: García, Santiago, 1968- On the graphic novel. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015] (DLC) 2014042598 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Santiago García; Bruce Campbell |
ISBN: | 9781496813183 1496813189 9781628464818 162846481X 1628464860 9781628464863 |
OCLC Number: | 893899251 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Spanish language. |
Notes: | The unnumbered pages are in four separate sequences. |
Description: | xvii, 230 pages, 74 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Preface to the American Edition : After La novela gráfica -- Preface : The Graphic Novel and Adult Art -- Introduction -- 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. |
Other Titles: | Novela gráfica. |
Responsibility: | Santiago García ; translated by Bruce Campbell. |
Abstract:
A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the US, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world.
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Santiago Garcia opens an excellent and necessary dialogue with adulthood and the inspiring possibilities of the graphic novel. This book is a journey through the critical spaces of comics and the historical genealogies, bringing new and refreshing debates between the past and the present."" - Ana Merino, author of El Comic Hispanico Read more...
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