num_pages: 416
description: Suddenly, comics are a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics , critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim to Chris Ware-and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art. Reading Comics is accessible to the hardcore fan and the curious newcomer; it is the first book for people who want to know not just what comics are worth reading, but also the ways to think and talk and argue about them.
language: English
title: Reading Comics
titlecomplete: Reading Comics
genres: Graphic Novels Comics, Essays, Literary Criticism, History, Comics, Graphic Novels, Criticism, Comix, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 1236
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
category: Best Comics-Related Book
publisher: Da Capo Press