For the first time in English, an essential history of the narrative art forms global riseA noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garca follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenthcentury European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentiethcentury comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world.Garca not only treats the formal components of the art, but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children, often viewed as unedifying and even at times as a threat to moral character, comics art has come a long way. With such examples from around the world as Spain, France, Germany, and Japan, Garca illustrates how the graphic novel, with its increasingly global and aesthetically sophisticated profile, represents a new model for graphic narrative production that empowers authors and challenges longstanding social prejudices against comics and what they can achieve.Originally from Spain, SANTIAGO GARCA, Baltimore, Maryland, is a writer, critic, and translator of American comics into Spanish. BRUCE CAMPBELL, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is professor of Hispanic studies at St. Johns University/College of St. Benedict. He is the author of Viva la historieta! Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the...

Binding: Hardcover;324 pages; Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; Classification: AB; Weight: 755 g; Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22

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