Research Catalog
The best American comics criticism / edited by Ben Schwartz.
- Title
- The best American comics criticism / edited by Ben Schwartz.
- Publication
- Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, c2010.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN6725 .B47 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 360 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- A critical assessment of the rise of the graphic novel evaluates the medium as one of the past century's most important literary movements while evaluating key publications since 2000, in a volume that includes contributions by such figures as Daniel Clowes, John Hodgman, and Douglas Wolk.
- Alternative Title
- American comics criticism
- Comics criticism
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Ben Schwartz -- Comics tragedy : is the superhero invulnerable? / Brian Doherty -- Graphic novels : can you hear the trucks? / Paul Gravett -- 9/11 comics / R. Fiore -- American boys (excerpt from Men of tomorrow) / Gerard Jones -- Excerpt from the Decision of U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson in Case No. CV-04-8400-SGL -- "Then let us commit them" (excerpt from The ten-cent plague) / David Hajdu -- High standards (excerpt from Wimbledon Green) / Seth -- The walk through the rain : Will Eisner and Frank Miller in conversation (excerpt from Eisner/Miller) -- Will Eisner and Frank Miller : the raconteurs (excerpt from Reading comics) / Douglas Wolk -- "A great bamboozler" : Howard Chaykin on Will Eisner / Bob Andelman -- "There is white and there is black and there is nothing in between" (excerpt from In search of Steve Ditko) / Alan Moore -- Spider-man sucks / Peter Bagge -- Letter of the law : Ditko's Mr. A period / Donald Phelps --
- Like a prairie fire, even hotter : Harold Gray, politics, and the not-so-funny funnies / Ben Schwartz -- Drawn from life / Jeet Heer -- George Herriman : the cat in the hat / Sarah Boxer -- Thurber's art (excerpt from Introduction to Is sex necessary?) / John Updike -- John Stanley's teen trilogy / Seth -- Schulz's gifts / Jonathan Franzen -- "A Mozart of zaniness" / Daniel Clowes -- "What's this one about?" : a re-reader's guide to David Boring / Ken Parille -- A child's garden of detritus : the cartoon chronicles of Lynda Barry / Donald Phelps -- Diary of a teenage rake : an appreciation of Phoebe Gloeckner's masterpiece / Donald Phelps -- What went wrong with the Masters show / Dan Nadel -- Töpffer in English / Chris Ware -- Epileptic : disorder in the house / Rick Moody -- Fun home : literary cartooning in a graphic novel / Robert C. Harvey -- Epics (Kirby's fourth world omnibus; Kirby : king of comics; Age of bronze; Y : the last man on Earth) / John Hodgman --
- Was this review helpful to you? : Joe Matt's Spent / Amazon.com readers -- C. Spinoza's Pacho Clokey / Nate Gruenwald -- Persian miniatures : Marjane Satrapi / David Hajdu -- "It keeps ending up looking like it was drawn by me" : an interview with Chester Brown / Darrell Epp -- "I feel my zaniness is based on truth" : an interview with Will Elder / Gary Groth -- "My strategy was to create the opposite" : an interview with Yoshihiro Tatsumi / Gary Groth -- "It's gotta be real to me, somehow" : an interview with Kim Deitch / gary Groth -- "I could related very closely to you alienation" : a conversation between Daniel Clowes and Jonathan Lethem -- New art comics panel : Sammy Harkham and Dan Nadel.
- ISBN
- 9781606991480 (pbk.)
- 1606991485 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 427613097
- SCSB-11548653
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library