A comics studies reader
By: edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.
Contributors: Heer, Jeet.; Worcester, Kent, 1959-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson, MS
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781604731088; 9781604731095
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why are comics still in search of cultural legitimization? / Thierry Groensteen; title: Rodolphe Töpffer's aesthetic revolution / David Kunzle; title: How comics came to be : through the juncture of word and image from magazine gag cartoons to newspaper strips, tools for critical appreciation plus rare seldom witnessed historical facts / Robert C. Harvey; title: The "vulgar" comic strip / Gilbert Seldes; title: Excerpt from Seduction of the innocent / Fredric Wertham; title: William Gaines and the battle over EC Comics / Amy Kiste Nyberg; title: The comics debates internationally / John A. Lent; title: The definition of the superhero / Peter Coogan; title: Two boys from the Twin Cities / M. Thomas Inge; title: Caricature / David Carrier; title: Beyond comparison / W.J.T. Mitchell; title: The impossible definition / Thierry Groensteen; title: An art of tensions / Charles Hatfield; title: The arrow and the grid / Joseph Witek; title: The construction of space in comics / Pascal Lefèvre; title: The acoustics of Manga / Robert S. Petersen; title: Ally Sloper : the first comics superstar? / Roger Sabin; title: Jackie and the problem of romance / Martin Barker; title: Home loving and without vices / Anne Rubenstein; title: Autobiography as authenticity / Bart Beaty; title: Manga versus Kibyōshi / Adam L. Kern; title: Beyond Shoujo, blending gender / Fusami Ogi; title: The innocents march into history / Ariel Dorfman; title: The garden in the machine / Thomas Andrae; title: An examination of "Master Race" / John Benson, David Kasakove, Art Spiegelman; title: The comics of Chris Ware / Gene Kannenberg, Jr.; title: Transcending comics : crossing the boundaries of the medium / Annalisa Di Liddo; title: History and graphic representation in Maus / Hillary Chute