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Why comics? : from underground to everywhere
- Title
- Why comics? : from underground to everywhere / Hillary Chute.
- Author
- Chute, Hillary L.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-9160 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Panter, Gary
- Description
- 449 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "Over the past century, fans have elevated comics from the back pages of newspapers into one of our most celebrated forms of culture, from Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic memoir, to the dozens of superhero films that are annual blockbusters worldwide. What is the essence of comics' appeal? What does this art form do that others can't? Whether you've read every comic you can get your hands on or you're just starting your journey, [this book] has something for you. Author Hillary Chute chronicles comics culture, explaining underground comics (also known as "comix") and graphic novels, analyzing their evolution, and offering fascinating portraits of the creative men and women behind them. Chute reveals why these works--a blend of concise words and striking visuals--are an extraordinarily powerful form of expression that stimulates us intellectually and emotionally. Focusing on ten major themes--disaster, superheroes, sex, the suburbs, cities, punk, illness and disability, girls, war, and queerness--Chute explains how comics gets its messages across more effectively than any other form. "Why disaster?" explores how comics are uniquely suited to convey the scale and disorientation of calamity, from Art Spiegelman's representation of the Holocaust and 9/11 to Keiji Nakazawa's focus on Hiroshima. "Why the suburbs?" examines how the work of Chris Ware and Charles Burns illustrates the quiet joys and struggles of suburban existence; and "Why punk?" delves into how comics inspire and reflect the punk movement's DIY aesthetics--giving birth to a democratic medium increasingly embraced by some of today's most significant artists. Featuring full-color reproductions of more than one hundred essential pages and panels, including some famous but never-before-reprinted images from comics legends, Why Comics? is an indispensable guide that offers a deep understanding of this influential art form and its masters."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Graphic novels.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435) and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Contents
- Foreword : one point of view / by Gary Panter -- Introduction : comics for grown-ups? -- Why disaster? -- Why superheroes? -- Why sex? -- Why the suburbs? -- Why cities? -- Why punk? -- Why illness & disability? -- Why girls? -- Why war? -- Why queer? -- Coda : why fans?
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9160
- ISBN
- 9780062476807
- 0062476807
- LCCN
- 2017020053
- OCLC
- 984512298
- Author
- Chute, Hillary L., author.
- Title
- Why comics? : from underground to everywhere / Hillary Chute.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435) and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Added Author
- Panter, Gary, writer of foreword.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Chute, Hillary L. Why comics? First edition. New York : Harper, 2017 9780062476814 (DLC) 2017020416 (OCoLC)984743380
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9160