On the graphic novel
By: Santiago García ; translated by Bruce Campbell
Contributors: Campbell, Bruce, 1964- translator
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781628464818; 9781628464825
Subjects: Graphic novels; History and criticism; Comic books, strips; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels; ART / Popular Culture; ART / Criticism & Theory
Work titles: Novela gráfica
Description: "A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world. Garcia not only treats the formal components of the art, but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children, often viewed as unedifying and even at times as a threat to moral characters, comics art has come a long way. With such examples from around the world as Spain, France, Germany, and Japan, Garcia illustrates how the graphic novel, with its increasingly global and aesthetically sophisticated profile, represents a new model for graphic narrative production that empowers authors and challenges longstanding social prejudices against comes and what they can achieve"--
Notes: The unnumbered pages are in four separate sequences.

Includes bibliographical references and index.