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Why Comics?

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Why Comics?

By Hillary L. Chute

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About the book

The massive impact that comics have had on our culture becomes more and more clear every day, from the critically acclaimed musical Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking comic, to the dozens of superhero films hitting cinemas every year. What is it that makes comics so special? What can this unique art form do that others can't? In Why Comics?, comics scholar Hillary Chute reveals the history of comics, underground comics (or comix), and graphic novels, through deep thematic analysi...Show more

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9780062476807

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Why Comics?

Format

Hardcover

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