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Reading Comics

Reading Comics

How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean

by Douglas Wolk
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/08/2007

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Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim to Chris Ware-and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art. Reading Comics is accessible to the hardcore fan and the curious newcomer; it is the first book for people who want to know not just what comics are worth reading, but also the ways to think and talk and argue about them.
ISBN:
9780306815096
9780306815096
Category:
Literary studies: fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-08-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.35x162.05x36.07mm
Weight:
0.61kg
Douglas Wolk

Douglas Wolk is the lead graphic novel reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, and has written about graphic novels and comics for Time, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Print magazine, among others. His writing includes the 2014 comic miniseries Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two, as well as a Kindle Single about comics culture (Comic-Con Strikes Again!). He teaches comics writing at Portland State University, and has moderated panels at most of the major American comics conventions. He has been awarded the Getty/USC Annenberg Arts Journalism Fellowship and a Mid-Career Fellowship with Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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