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On the Graphic Novel
Santiago Garcia
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Description for On the Graphic Novel
Paperback. An essential history of the narrative art form's global rise Num Pages: 254 pages, 130 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; AF; AKLC; DQ; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world. Garcia not only treats the formal components of the art, but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children, often viewed as unedifying ... Read more
A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world. Garcia not only treats the formal components of the art, but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children, often viewed as unedifying ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
477g
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496813183
SKU
V9781496813183
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Ref
99-1
About Santiago Garcia
Originally from Spain, Santiago Garcia, Baltimore, Maryland, is a writer, critic, and translator of American comics into Spanish. Bruce Campbell, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is professor of Hispanic studies at St. John's University/College of St. Benedict. He is the author of !Viva la historieta! Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization (University Press of Mississippi).
Reviews for On the Graphic Novel
Santiago Garcia opens an excellent and necessary dialogue with adulthood and the inspiring possibilities of the graphic novel. This book is a journey through the critical spaces of comics and the historical genealogies, bringing new and refreshing debates between the past and the present. - Ana Merino, author of El Comic Hispanico