"A survey of the best scholars writing on the form, craft,
history, and significance of the comics
A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics
scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms
as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and
graphic novels.
The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the
Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art
Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, romance comics, and
superheroes. It explores the stylistic achievements of manga, the
international anti-comics campaign, and power and class in Mexican comic
books and English illustrated stories.
A Comics Studies Reader introduces readers to the major
debates and points of reference that continue to shape the field. It will
interest anyone who wants to delve deeper into the world of comics and is
ideal for classroom use." -fra omslaget