Autobiographical comics
Subtitle: life writing in pictures
By: Elisabeth El Refaie
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781617036132; 9781617036149
Subjects: Autobiographical comic books, strips; Narrative art; History and criticism; Themes, motives
Description: A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns of this fascinating genre. The book considers eighty-five works of North American and European provenance, works that cover a broad range of subject matters and employ many different artistic st.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.