The rise and reason of comics and graphic literature : critical essays on the form / edited by Joyce Goggin and Dan Hassler-Forest.

"These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal wit...

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Other Authors: Goggin, Joyce, 1959-, Hassler-Forest, Dan
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2010.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Graphic novels > History and criticism.
Physical Description:238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Origin stories: history and development of the genre
  • Of gutters and guttersnipes: Hogarth's legacy / Joyce Goggin
  • Ridiculous rebellion: George L. Carlson and the recovery of Jingle Jangle Comics / Daniel F. Yezbick
  • Suspended in mid-month: serialized storytelling in comics / Daniel W¿llner
  • What we talk about when we talk about comics: theory and terminology
  • Balloonics: the visuals of balloons in comics / Charles Forceville, Tony Veale, and Kurt Feyaerts
  • Remediation and the sense of time in graphic narratives / Kai Mikkonen
  • Brick by brick: Chris Ware's architecture of the page / Angela Szczepaniak
  • Out of the gutter: comics and adaptations
  • It was the best of two worlds, it was the worst of two worlds: the adaptation of novels in comics and graphic novels / Dirk Vanderbeke
  • The 300 controversy: a case study in the politics of adaptation / Dan Hassler-Forest
  • Men in tights? The superhero paradigm
  • The last action hero's swan song: graphic novelty or never-ending story? / Andreas Rauscher
  • Extraordinary people: the superhero genre and celebrity
  • Culture in The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Jonathan E. Goldman
  • Warren Ellis's Planetary: the archaeology of superheroes / Karin Kukkonen
  • Drawing history: nonfiction in comics
  • Reconsidering comics journalism: information and experience in Joe Sacco's Palestine / Benjamin Woo
  • Comics, trauma and cultural memory(ies) of 9/11 / Christophe Dony and Caroline van Linthout
  • "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting wippers": a barthesian analysis of the construction of fact and fiction in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From hell /Julia Round
  • Graphic black nationalism: visualizing political narratives in the graphic novel / James Braxton Peterson.