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Reading Comics: How Graphic
Novels Work and What They Mean. By Douglas Wolk. Da
Capo Press, 2007 (hc), 2008 (pb). 405pp.
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 0306815095 - ISBN-13:
9780306815096
Paperback: ISBN-10: 0306816164 - ISBN-13: 9780306816161
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in a Library with WorldCat
Library of Congress: PN6725 .W65 2007 ||
Dewey: 741.53 22
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Publisher's
Description
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.
Acknowledgments ... iv
PART
ONE - HISTORY & THEORY ... 1
- What Comics Are and
What they Aren't ... 3
- Auteurs, the
History of Art Comics, and How to Look at Ugly Drawings ... 29
- What's Good About Bad
Comics and What's Bad about Good Comics ... 60
- Superheroes and
Superreaders ... 89
- Pictures, Words, and
the Space Between Them ... 118
PART TWO:
REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY
... 135
A Small Disclaimer ... 137
- David B.: The Battle
Against the Real World ... 139
- Chester Brown: The
Outsider ... 147
- Steve Ditko: A is A
... 156
- Will Eisner and Frank
Miller: The Raconteurs ... 166
- Gilbert Hernandez:
Spiraling into the System ... 181
- Jaime Hernandez: Mad
Love ... 193
- Craig Thompson and
James Kochalka: Craft Versus Cuteness ... 203
- Hope Larson: The
Cartography of Joy ... 214
- Carla Speed McNeil:
Shape-Changing Demons, Birth-Yurts, and Robot Secretaries
... 220
- Alan Moore: The House
of the Magus ... 228
- Grant Morrison: The
Invisible King ... 258
- Dave Sim: Aardvark
Politick ... 289
- The Dark Mirrors of
Jim Starlin's Warlock
... 304
- Tomb of Dracula:
The Cheap Strong Stuff ... 317
- Kevin Huizenga:
Visions from the Enchanted Gas Station ... 329
- Charles Burns and Art
Spiegelman: Draw Yourself Raw ... 336
- Why Does Chris Ware
Hate Fun? ... 347
- Alison Bechdel:
Reframing Memory ... 359
Afterword: The Rough Wave and the
Smooth Wave ... 365
Notes
... 373
Index
... 391
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