The US Graphic Novel

Paul Williams

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2022

The US Graphic Novel

Paul Williams

In the series Critical Insights in American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474423359

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About this book

Provides a history of US graphic novels from the 1910s to the present

Emphasises the relationship between comics and other media
Explains the role that fans, reviewers and critics have played in constructing the concept of a comic that is also a novel
Substantively covers the pre-1980s history of the graphic novel
Suitable as secondary reading on taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses
Written in an accessible manner with key terms explained when first used
Provides analyses of Lynd Ward’s Gods’ Man, Samuel R. Delany and Howard Chaykin’s Empire, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Jeremy Love’s Bayou

This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art historians, journalists, and reviewers debated whether it was possible for a comic to be a novel – debates that accelerated after the term ’graphic novel’ was coined by the comics fan Richard Kyle in 1964. This study underlines the proximity of the graphic novel to other media, showing that this cultural form is not only the meeting place between periodical comics and books, but that graphic novels are in dialogue with films, posters and computer screens.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Precursors and Woodcut Novels: 14 September 1842 to the 1930s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Comics, Comics Everywhere at Mid-century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. In Search of Adult Comics Readers: 1961–72 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Declaration of Independents: 1973–9 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5. ‘The Comic Book Grows Up’: 1979–91 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
6. Boom and Bust, Mainstream and Alternative: The 1990s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
7. Twenty-first-century Graphic Novels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 17 B/W illustrations 6 colour illustrations 17 black and white & 6 colour illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: November 22, 2022
ISBN: 9781474423359