On the Graphic Novel

By Santiago García

Book Overview

A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garc a follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century 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.

Garc a 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, Garc a 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496813189
• ISBN13: 9781496813183
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"