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Reading Comics:

How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
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Da Capo Press, 31/lug/2008 - 416 pagine
The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics theory and criticism by the leading critic in the field
  

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Indice

1 What Comics Are and What They Arent
3
2 Auteurs the History ofArt Comics and How to Look at Ugly Drawings
29
3 Whats Good About Bad Comics and Whats Bad About Good Comics
60
4 Superheroes and Superreaders
89
5 Pictures Words and the Space Between Them
118
PART TWO REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY
135
A Small Disclaimer
137
The Battle Against the Real World
139
ShapeChanging Demons BirthYurts and Robot Secretaries
220
The House of the Magus
228
The Invisible King
258
Aardvark Politick
289
18 The Dark Mirrors ofJim Starlins Warlock
304
The Cheap Strong Stuff
317
Visions from the Enchanted Gas Station
329
Draw Yourself Raw
336

The Outsider
147
A Is A
156
The Raconteurs
166
Spiraling into the System
181
Mad Love
193
Craft Versus Cuteness
203
The Cartography ofJoy
214
22 Why Does Chris Ware Hate Fun?
347
Reframing Memory
359
The Rough Wave and the Smooth Wave
365
Notes
373
Index
391
Copyright

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Informazioni sull'autore (2008)

Douglas Wolk writes about comics and music for publications including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, Salon, and The Believer. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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TitoloReading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
AutoreDouglas Wolk
EditoreDa Capo Press, 2008
ISBN078672157X, 9780786721573
Lunghezza416 pagine
  
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