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Reading Comics

Reading Comics

How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean

by Douglas Wolk
Paperback
Publication Date: 10/06/2008

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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 and how. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Chris Ware-and explains their roots, influences, and where they fit into the pantheon of art. As accessible to the hardcore fan as to the curious newcomer, Reading Comics is the first book for people who want to know not just which comics are worth reading, but ways to think and talk and argue about them.
ISBN:
9780306816161
9780306816161
Category:
Graphic novels: history & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10-06-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
216x141x28mm
Weight:
0.5kg
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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