The rise of the American comics artist
Subtitle: creators and contexts
By: edited by Paul Williams and James Lyons
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson [Miss.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781604737912; 9781604737929
Subjects: Cartoonists; Comic books, strips; Biography; History
Other titles: Creators and contexts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the year 3794 / Paul Williams and James Lyons; title: How the graphic novel changed American comics / Stephen Weiner; title: "Is this a book?" DC Vertigo and the redefinition of comics in the 1990s / Julia Round; title: Signals from airstrip one : the British invasion of mainstream American comics / Chris Murray; title: State of the nation and the Freedom fighters arc / Graham J. Murphy; title: Critique, caricature, and compulsion in Joe Sacco's comics journalism / Adam Rosenblatt and Andrea A. Lunsford; title: Too much commerce man? Shannon Wheeler and the ironies of the "Rebel cell" / James Lyons; title: Comics against themselves : Chris Ware's graphic narratives as literature / David M. Ball; title: Questions of "contemporary women's comics" / Paul Williams; title: Theorizing sexuality in comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders; title: Feminine Latin/o American identities on the American alternative landscape : from the women of Love and rockets to La perdida / Ana Merino; title: Making comics respectable : how Maus helped redefine a medium / Ian Gordon; title: "A purely American tale" : the tragedy of racism and Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth as great American novel / Paul Williams; title: "That mouse's shadow" : the canonization of Spiegelman's Maus / Andrew Loman.