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The rise of the American comics artist : creators and contexts

Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic-book industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank MillerÃ?'s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsÃ?'s Watchmen (1987) revolutionized the former genre in particular. During this same period, underground and alternative genres began to garner critical acclaim and media attention beyond comics-specific outlets, as best represented by Art SpiegelmanÃ?'s Maus . Publishe
eBook, English, ©2010
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson [Miss.], ©2010
Electronic books
1 online resource (xxiv, 253 pages) : illustrations
9781604737936, 9781282939271, 160473793X, 1282939270
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In the year 3794 / Paul Williams and James Lyons
How the graphic novel changed American comics / Stephen Weiner
"Is this a book?" DC Vertigo and the redefinition of comics in the 1990s / Julia Round
Signals from airstrip one : the British invasion of mainstream American comics / Chris Murray
State of the nation and the Freedom fighters arc / Graham J. Murphy
Critique, caricature, and compulsion in Joe Sacco's comics journalism / Adam Rosenblatt and Andrea A. Lunsford
Too much commerce man? Shannon Wheeler and the ironies of the "Rebel cell" / James Lyons
Comics against themselves : Chris Ware's graphic narratives as literature / David M. Ball
Questions of "contemporary women's comics" / Paul Williams
Theorizing sexuality in comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders
Feminine Latin/o American identities on the American alternative landscape : from the women of Love and rockets to La perdida / Ana Merino
Making comics respectable : how Maus helped redefine a medium / Ian Gordon
"A purely American tale" : the tragedy of racism and Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth as great American novel / Paul Williams
"That mouse's shadow" : the canonization of Spiegelman's Maus / Andrew Loman