The Us Graphic Novel

ISBN-13: 9781474423373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str.

Paul Williams

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

1. Precursors and Woodcut Novels: 14 September 1842 to the 1930s

2. Comics, Comics Everywhere at Mid-Century

3. In Search of Adult Comics Readers: 1961–72

4. Declaration of Independents: 1973–9

5. ‘The Comic Book Grows Up’: 1979–91

6. Boom and Bust, Mainstream and Alternative: The 1990s

7. Twenty-First-Century Graphic Novels

Conclusion