Title: Autobiographical comics
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.
Subjects: Autobiographical comic books, strips, Narrative art, History and criticism, Themes, motives, Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism, Art, themes, motives, etc.