Reading Comics
Subtitle: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780306815096
Subjects: Comic book & cartoon art; Graphic Satire And Humor; Comics & Graphic Novels; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; History: World; Comics & Cartoons; Popular Culture - General; History & Criticism; Comic books, strips, etc; History and criticism; United States
Description: Suddenly, comics are everywhere: 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.