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...
A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, thro...
