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Of Comics and Men
Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form. A thorough introduction by translators and comics scholars Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen brings the book up to date with explorations of the latest innovations, particularly the graphic novel. The book is organized into three sections: a concis...
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.
Charlie Brown's America
Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became the unlikely spokespeople for American life in the last half of the twentieth century.
R. Crumb
Robert Crumb devint à la fin des années 60 le pape de la bande dessinée underground américaine. Né en 1943 dans une famille typique de la petite classe moyenne de l’après-guerre, il s’imposa à l’âge adulte comme le premier satiriste de la contreculture, avec des personnages mémorables tels que Fritz le chat, jouisseur cynique et désabusé, et le gourou roublard Mr. Natural. Au détour de rencontres avec Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Charles Bukowski et bien d’autres, il marqua les années 70 en pornographe vilipendé par les féministes et les gardiens des bonnes mœurs. Mais il se révéla dans la suite de sa carrière comme un créateur aux facettes multiples, illustrateur ...
European Readings of American Popular Culture
Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture in Europe is both a European story about America and an American story about Europe. This work examines this cross-cultural phenomenon from the European viewpoint. Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsider—a fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three. Of interest to scholars, students, and general readers alike. The book's focus is...
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives
Written by leading international scholars, this book surveys transnational dimensions of graphic narratives, covering popular comics and graphic novels from the USA, Asia and Europe.
Dreaming the Graphic Novel
This book examines the early history of the graphic novel in the 1970s, after the term was coined but before this art form achieved popular success and critical acclaim. Unearthing a treasure trove of fanzines, adverts, and unpublished letters, it gives readers an exciting inside look at a pivotal moment in the development of the graphic novel.
Jean-Paul Gaultier
The bad-boy of fashion and the torchbearer of French style, Jean-Paul Gaultier is one of the few designers whose work never ceases to shock and amaze. Season after season, he forges ahead with a collection that always manages to be more provocative than the last. Jean-Paul Gaultier is the only illustrated biography of this fashion force. Photographs from the runway and backstage are interspersed with sketches and scraps of inspiration to chronicle a life that was never "ordinary" -- from Gaultier's childhood in France and his introduction to fashion, to the influence of Cardin, travel in India and Manila, and his trademark shock tactics. Gaultier's enormous personality and talent extend beyond the catwalk: to television as an anchor of the anything-goes hit Eurotrash, to film as the costume designer for The Fifth Element, and to music as the creator of Madonna's signature bustier. Jean-Paul Gaultier reveals the life of a man who has not only influenced the way we dress, but has totally changed the way we perceive fashion, sex, and ourselves.
Rebuilding Story Worlds
A collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, The Obscure Cities also represents one of the most impressive pieces of world-building in any form of literature. Rebuilding Story Worlds offers the first full-length study of this seminal series, exploring both the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space. Comics scholar Jan Baetens examines how Schuiten’s work as an arc...
Art History for Comics
This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future. It unearths how early comics scholars deployed art-historical approaches, including stylistic analysis, iconography, Cultural History and the social history of art, and proposes how such methodologies, updated in light of disciplinary developments within Art History, could be usefully adopted in the study of comics today. Through a series of indicative case studies of British and American comics like Eagle, The Mighty Thor, 2000AD, Escape and Heartbreak Hotel, it argues that art-historical methods better address overlooked aspects of visual and material form. Bringing Art History back into the interdisciplinary nexus of comics scholarship raises some fundamental questions about the categories, frameworks and values underlying contemporary Comics Studies.
