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Reading Comics

Paperback • 2008 • English

Reading Comics

By Douglas Wolk

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About the book

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, R...Show more

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ISBN

9780306816161

Publisher

Da Capo Press Inc

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Reading Comics

Format

Paperback

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