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Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature
Charles Hatfield
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Description for Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature
paperback. Analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman's "Maus", Gilbert Hernandez's "Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories", and Justin Green's "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary". This book offers a critical study of comics and graphic novels as both a literary genre and a cultural phenomenon. Num Pages: 277 pages, 60 b&w comic book illustrations. BIC Classification: AKLC; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 214 x 14. Weight in Grams: 572.
In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Françoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love & Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books. In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the ... Read more
In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Françoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love & Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books. In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781578067190
SKU
V9781578067190
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About Charles Hatfield
Charles Hatfield is an assistant preofessor of English at California State University. His work has been published in Comics Journal, Inks: Cartoon & Comic Art Studies, and ImageTexT amongst others.
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